Peru, the New Poetry

 

 

A Guerrilla’s Word
Because my country is beautiful
like a sword in the air
and bigger now and even
still more beautiful,
I speak out and defend it
with my life. I don’t care what traitors
say
we’ve blocked the way
with thick tears
of steel.
The sky is ours.
Ours our daily bread.
We’ve sown and harvested
the wheat and the land,
ours too and always ours
the sea,
the jungles
and the birds

Javier Heraud translated by Maureen Ahern

 

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