Tatuagem [English translation]

I want to stay on your body like a tattoo

Which is there to give you courage

To continue your journey

When night comes

And also to perpetuate myself as your slave

That you get, rub up against, deny

But doesn't wash

I want to play on your body like a ballerina

That soon hallucinates

Jumps and enlightens you

When night comes

And on the exhausted muscles of your arm

To rest limp, wilted, weary,

Tired to death

I want to weigh like a cross on your back

That shreds you into pieces

But deep down you like it

when night comes

I want to be the smiling and corrosive scar

Marked in cold, iron and fire

In living flesh

Hearts for mothers,

Harpoons, mermaids and serpents

That scribble all over your body

But you don't feel

• Artist:Rosa Passos