Resister

Resister

to Howard Clark

War resister,

life resister,

you are going away singing.

I met you in the nineteen’s

during a disobedient assembly,

during the impregnable sunrise with firearms without triggers,

with armies without uniforms,

with military service records burning.

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Word resister,

memory resister,

you are going away singing.

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You left your country, your roots, your history,

you met yourself again in the exile,

you involve yourself with love

and your solitude felt accompanied (as Milanés said)

eternally with loves.

Silence resister,

solstice resister,

you are going away singing.

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And we met last time during the last strike,

both ready to peace against the injustices,

then you deliver me the Charo’s book,

a way of life, an inextinguishable light,

a past for the future.

Memory resister,

homesickness resister,

you are going away singing.

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g.bruno  (Pedro Polo)2013

with love to Yolanda and her children