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You are here: Home / Blogs / UTOPIAS DESCIFRADAS 8.21.16 “LESSONS OF HUMANITY.”

UTOPIAS DESCIFRADAS 8.21.16 “LESSONS OF HUMANITY.”

August 21, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

Lecciones de humanidad

 

Martin-Luther-King2

Dr. Martin Luther King

Hay quienes dejan un pedazo de su ser

bajo nuestra piel que se anquilosa y late

como una espina que ni se absorbe ni expulsa,

que late bajo una fina epidermis que no es

cicatriz ni es tumor ni te permite olvidarla.

 

Hay quienes dejan un retazo de su ser

anclado en nuestros sentidos que satura

con sus pequeñas alegrías o sus grandes

tristezas y sus enormes necesidades de

vencer los demonios que le bullen dentro.

 

Pedro-Albizu-Campos2

Don Pedro Albizu Campos

Hay quienes se nos quedan prendidas

en la memoria y nos aleccionan sobre

la vulnerabilidad propia de la sensibilidad,

la invencibilidad y morbilidad del amor,

de la solidaridad como lección de humanidad.

 

Lessons in humanity

There are some who leave a slice of themselves

under our skin that stiffens and beats

like a thorn that is neither absorbed or expelled,

throbbing under a thin epidermis that is neither

tumor nor scar nor allows us to ignore it is there.

 

Labor Leader Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta

There are some who leave a piece of themselves

anchored in our senses

who drench us with little joys and boundless

sadness and the intractable need

to vanquish the demons that seethe inside us.

 

There are some who stay pinned

to our memory and who teach us

the unavoidable vulnerability of sensibility,

the invincibility and the morbidity of love,

of solidarity as lesson of humanity.

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Copyright 2016 por José Muratti Toro

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