"DESIRES ... OF DEAD LIVING"

POEM


"DESIRES OF DEAD LIVING"


What a death wish and life

Are intermingled and mixed ...

I want to have you dead, I want

Walk away and run away

Fearful I invoke you, I tremble,

I suffer and sigh with the breath

Of life itself ...

My hurried heart hurts

Longing and at the same time

Proving how alive I feel ...

This desert of the soul,

Thirsty water for life ...

Fight my mind with hope

To revive the flame and in the name of

Divine Son I invoke you to

Get out of this well ...

I struggle to hold on and not let myself fall

Sigh in the air, with the breath of life

I take strength and move on

I'm brave, I open my eyes

To see life and erect my forehead ...

I have triumphed before the desire to death,

I got you out of my life with you and

Your strong smell to death, funebre and rotten ...

My body breathes, I dress in white

Of pure life and burial the black robe

That struck my life ... I will be strong ...

And I will recover my mind ... I will not faint,

Nor will I regret ... my dignity and courage

They will give me life back.


Martha Santana