
Dear (not so) old passport, I never really liked you.
They look at you
and call me Ramos
They stamp your pages
and let me pass…
Borders they say! They have big pieces of cloth they call flags and they say they are proud of. They are proud of being born in a specific piece of land and not another. They call these places countries. They call me “Portuguese!” because I was born in a place and not another.
When I was born, they wrote Ramos on you to keep track of my body. They call it a legal identity: I am you and I am my body. And Ramos they call to all these things.
They do the same to themselves! They make signs in papers to make believe the papers represent their bodies. They even believe their bodies represent themselves!
But after those so many borders and papers and stamps, my dear, I see just more men. All the same eyes, mouth and feet, and all with the same gaze, looking for food and shelter.
Sometime in the future they will call Ramos to the court, you, my body and me. But well, I like to use you to travel, and pretend I am that Portuguese Ramos they say I am. You and me together! But when they call this Ramos, my dear, I will refuse, I will tell them the truth about you and I. I will tell them I am no Ramos. I am not the entity they say you represent. I am no paper or classification. I am no you!
I may accept I am this body today, but I will never accept that I am you. I will always refuse to understand the reason of your existence.
My dear passport, I hope you rest in peace!