The Seven Tears of an Preto Velho
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The Seven Tears of an Preto Velho
In a corner of a yard, sitting on a stool, puffing on his pipe, a sad preto velho was crying...
From her wet eyes, tears streamed down her cheeks and, I don't know why, I counted them… There were seven!
In the unrestrained desire to know, I approached and questioned him...
– Speak my preto velho, tell your son why do you express such a visible pain?
And he, softly replied...
– Do you see this crowd that comes and goes? The counted tears are distributed to each of them.
The first, I gave these indifferent people who come here in search of distraction, to go out mocking what their dazed minds cannot conceive...
The second, to those eternal doubters who believe, disbelieve, in the expectation of a miracle that will make them achieve what their own merits deny...
The third, I distributed to the bad, those who only seek Umbanda in search of revenge, always wanting to harm a fellow man…
The fourth, to the cold and calculating, who know that there is a spiritual force and seek to benefit from it in any way and do not know the word gratitude...
The farm arrives softly, has the laughter and praise of the flower on her lips, but if you look closely at her face, you will see the written “I believe in Umbanda, its caboclos and its Zambi, but only if they win my case, or me to cure this or that”…
The sixth, I gave it to the futiles, who go from terreiro to terreiro, not believing in anything, looking for coziness and cuddles, but their eyes reveal a different interest...
The seventh child, notes how big it was and how heavy it slipped, was the last tear, the one that lives in the eyes of all the orixás; I made this donation to mediums, vain, who only appear in the terreiro on feast days and lack the doctrines. They forget that there are so many brothers in need of charity and so many little children in need of material and spiritual support…
And so, my son, it was for all these, that you saw, one by one, the seven tears of that preto velho!