by Liliana Nogueira-Pache
Pero No Pueden
Primero nos mataron.
Después nos encerraron
dentro, muy dentro de nosotros.
Ya no nos mirábamos, salíamos con las cabezas bajas
teníamos miedo.
Teníamos vergüenza.
Sobre todo sentíamos vergüenza.
Porque ya no nos atrevíamos a pensar
a hablar.
Sobre todo, no nos atrevíamos a defender a los
demás.
Por eso, nuestras cabezas no miraban hacia adelante
por eso nuestros ojos se clavaban en el suelo
por eso huíamos de nosotros.
Seguíamos encerrados
atrapados
muertos en
nuestra vergüenza.
Inmóviles.
Máscaras vacías
de un mundo sin
comprensión
donde el terror
siembra silencio,
aniquila y
destruye.
But They Can’t
First
they killed us.
Later they locked
us up
within
ourselves, deep within ourselves.
Now we
didn’t look each other in the eye, we went about with our heads bowed.
We
were afraid. We were ashamed.
Above
all we were ashamed.
Because
now we couldn’t even think
or talk.
More
than that, we didn’t dare defend each other.
That’s
why we didn’t walk with heads raised.
That’s
why our eyes were fixed on the ground.
That’s
why we escaped from ourselves.
We were caught
trapped
dead
in our shame.
Motionless.
Empty masks
of a
world without compassion.
Where terror sows
silence,
annihilates and
destroys.
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