Alexis Valdés dedicates emotional verses to the bravery of the Cubans who demonstrated on 11J

The actor and comedian Alexis Valdés dedicated moving verses to the brave people who protest demanding rights and freedoms in Cuba and are repressed by the communist regime, fueling hatred and division among Cubans.

“More than a month after many brave Cubans are in prison and other Cubans who think it is an act of bravery to repress them are free, I have written these verses. They are for my brave ones and for those who could grow humanly and become so,” the artist said in a Facebook post.

Under the title “Brave,” the actor portrayed those Cubans who ask for a “strong hand” against the peaceful protesters who joined the 11J protests and all those who dare to express their desire for freedom. In his poem, published this Friday, Valdés described them as defenders “of the country of the club.”

“You who agree / to those who repress your people / I ask your heart: / Do you think you are brave?”, questioned the comedian in some quatrains in which he praised the patriotism of citizens who peacefully oppose the Cuban regime, in contrast to those who ask to quell the revolts through the deployment of State terrorism.

To those Cubans who support repression, Valdés asked them what they will do tomorrow when their relatives are the ones who take to the streets to demand the end of the dictatorship. “When love hurts / Will your selfishness end? / Well, it will no longer be courage / then it will be cynicism,” Valdés told them in his poem.

For the artist, very active in favor of the freedom of Cuba on his social networks (in which he has published several poems with political content), “brave is he who goes out / with his soul in his gaze / he who takes risks in street / while you don't risk anything.” Brave are thousands of anonymous Cubans who demand the right to have rights and a prosperous and dignified life.

Also brave for Valdés are all those other activists who are now in prison for expressing their ideas freely and for encouraging Cubans to lose their fear. In his poem, it is not “he who shouts Fidel” who is brave, but rather those who, like the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, make a work marked by the love of Cuba and the brotherhood of Cubans.

“My brave man is also Robles / Maikel, Hamlet Lavastida / my brave men are the nobles / those who shout Homeland and Life,” expressed Valdés in a poem in which he invited supporters of the regime to reflect that there is no courage without compassion, “ nor a country without a heart.”

Next,CyberCubareproduces the complete poem by Alexis Valdés:

Brave

You who love the dictator

that you believe in his heroism

and you call the other a traitor

for not believing in the same

You who are a defender

from the homeland of the garrote

and you join the clamor

of blood and molote

You who agree with him

who represses your people

I ask your heart:

Do you think you are brave?

And what will you do when tomorrow

that pain drills you

when they arrest your sister

to your mother or your father?

When love hurts you

Will your selfishness end?

Well it will no longer be worth

then it will be cynicism.

Brave is the one who comes out

with the soul in the eyes

the one who takes risks in the street

while you don't risk anything.

Brave is that girl

maybe your neighbor

whom you call a traitor

for defending what is yours

Because the country belongs to everyone

no matter how much they want to steal it

and if it sinks in the mud

It is brave to take it out.

Those really are brave

not the one that Fidel shouts

the brave man loves people

my brave man is Luis Manuel

My brave man is also Robles

Maikel, Hamlet Direct

my brave are the noble

those who shout Homeland and Life.

They are brave without a gun

no sticks, hate, or walls

that while my land cries

They continue dreaming of the future.

Brave is the one who speaks to you

and that looks at you in front

Well, to fight without weapons

you have to be very brave.

Courage, let me clarify

begins in compassion

There is no such thing as a brave bad guy

nor country without heart.

Reconsider values

redesign your schemes

and you may evolve

towards a good person.

Swell with humanity

and give love to your people

and that day you will see

I will call you Brave.