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Yarisa Colón Torres

2023

On top of this rock, I confront the sea

of prisons

men bones dust

so that your roots may reveal

that which they conceal 

I hereon set them free

 

see how they climb

one over the other

trampling the fervor

mutilating tongues 

in the name 

of peace

 

place your head here 

listen to the heartbeats

 

they burn the fields 

turn water into bait

 

see how these hands

drown the poison

Under the waves

so that our people may rest

 

if you offer time

I will give you my breath

 

let your roots travel with the birds and color the lips of the breeze 

that weaves us together

 

that which once weighed 

on your back will at last be dissolved 

among the living dead

 

listen to your pulse 

the heartbeats

 

Let us sing to our displacement                                                                                                                                                                                                                

  

take this handful of ashes and dreams 

scatter them over the earth

 

your true voice

will rise

Derechos: Yarisa Colón Torres

English translation coming soon