1465, South America

                                                                                                  Conquistadors    

      1465 

One of the conquistadors, Velazquez de Cueila
                                                   [was born in Spain this very year,
who along with others , would travel to the ends of the earth,
                                                    [and expand the Spanish frontier. 

I will take this opportunity to say a few words,
                                                            [about some of them,
those that with lances and cannons determined to condemn
to death indigenous peoples,
                              [because their crime was that they had gold,
and if you did not realize this,
                                        [your eyes were covered by a blindfold.         

I had no idea, and I have no evidence for the above,
I simply convey the moanful crying,

           [from a Peruvian for his tribe, for his likes of.

I met him on one of my trips when I was a seafarer,
and he was describing some unknown to me reign of terror ..

I remember he was talking about five Spanish guys,
                                                                [for the Pizarro brothers,
the sons of Gonzalo Pizarro, a Spanish soldier,
                                          [brothers from three different mothers,
which attacked and defeated the Inca Empire,
                                                                 [of present-day Peru.

He told many stories,
            [mentioning many conquerors whose name I knew...

Time has erased almost all my memories from these trips,
but I never forgot Pedro's and and his wife's Soledad,
                                                [crying with trembling lips....
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 to be continued

''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis - CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS//_________________________________________________________________

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