I - THERE WAS A DIFFERENT GOD
Some believe knowing the story. Others will remember it without knowing it. And to be
those who deny it, but part of it bring it in your blood.
was once a village, a former
people who lived in a natural paradise.
in peace and without violence, without weapons or metal were
to strange men who came from another world.
In that world even stranger still
these men brought many emergency and greed!
that the lives they found, animal or human
plant or mineral, most were missing
in four centuries and more, our Western time.
From here human thought
-comers from far-
found little worth
people except to make a slave of his own meekness.
Irlo This could kill the gods they had brought.
And if these were not enough swords brandished.
And if that were not enough words
drawing the breasts hiding behind them.
Time passed and the silent memory
passing someone answered without being so responsive. Did did
something worth remembering?
have become extinct, nothing remains of his blood
Where are if not the names, their speech, their astronomy
their heritage? Do we have economy?
These questions came from the mouths, which were
and remain, the voice of those descendants
minds of those strange, that five centuries ago
once we arrived, and stayed forever.
Planned rigorously barbaric their hunger
sooner rather than later, many of these men
conquest unmasked his speeches exposing
unbridled thirst for blood.
A few moved away from these evils,
but his words were shut
in complicated academic discourses.
Too many men were
stayed only just passed
without living a great knowledge of
walk walk in peace with nature and his brothers.
- For some of those things, I believe - is not coincidental
the indigenous people who know little of their language
of their voices, or history, or those
own blood with his blood made of sun, his arms made of moon
long rivers and lakes in width
lived for valleys natural course.
dazzle in magical fairy tales
gnomes and demons with horns, sometimes we also
unbelievers, forgetting
memory that all we ever had, the more these days so full
hegemonic cultures and unique thoughts
perhaps because we live in a hurry times for urgent
of urban timepieces accurate.
Throughout the centuries, from its current state
something, some have been complicit
at least neutral, silent listeners.
So it was that time wanted
and it may be well on the
even today we continue to prevent
remember how they were born for the first time our molecules
blood sharing of yellow maize
territories in superb water and cattails
sand and locust bean of reed and jarillas.
That winter night in Upper Clean
who spoke to me told me told
ours, is not only a legend that account.
