Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The streets read poems too.

What good can I do

for a world

fond on making new roads

when all i´m good at

is finding cracks

on the asphalt

for people

who don´t want to see them

for road signs which tell us

to overlook them

for elementary school teachers

which forbid the children

to rest their ears against their edges

and listen to their story

for policemen who order us

not to pay attention to them

for they are the chalk outlines

of unsolved murders

that everyone is willing to forget


All I want to do

is lay besides their

cracked

but still shaking bodies

whispering trembling words

about not forgetting

promise them i´ll visit

every once in a while

to talk about their glory days

while the ants march besides us

their quiet steps

too humble

too shake the ground enough

for anyone to notice them

but I do

and maybe that´s why they keep walking

or maybe they just don´t care

Monday, February 14, 2011

Alone

Once
a man grew
more than he should
trying to grab
the sky wide and blue
hoping he could pass over
the clouds
to reach god
and rip from him the truth

But then
he heard a voice claim
"No man should be that tall"

So furious he made
a furnace called hate
to melt that voice inside
which frail as a bird taken by the neck
couldn´t help but watch himself
burn

As the man added more logs to the flames
he heard someone call
"No man should be burned
for speaking his ways"
so he grabbed him too
to fuel his hate
and they weren´t the last

Soon others danced with them
to the beating rhythm
of the cracking flames
while the giant watched as he wondered
how could they lift up
their heads
if he had broken
their spines
how could they still
laugh
if he had crushed them
to dust

He ignored he had taken their feet
but their suffering turned into wings
which took them far
even past
the clouds

When he realizes
he´s all alone
he will reclaim this
cold piece of earth
his own.