Fray - Clementina Suárez

I am a poet,

an army of poets.

And today I want to write a poem —

a whistles poem,

a rifles poem —

to strike them in doorways,

in prison cells,

within the walls of schools.

Today I want to build and destroy,

to give hope a lift onto the scaffold.

I want to rouse the child,

archangel of swords,

to be lightning-flash and thunderclap

with a statue of a hero

to topple, to obliterate

the rotted roots of my people.

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Clementina Suárez (1906 - 1991) Honduras

Translated by Dave Bonta

Source: Via Negativa