"Man is the most marvelous being in all of of nature. Torturing,destroying, exterminating him for his ideas is more than a Human Rights violation, it is a crime against all of Humanity." - Armando Valladares
L' ILLUSION LYRIQUE
I rise up above the exhaustion of the task
This is the land where I suffered
lashes after lashes
my mouth to the ground
I rowed in the tumultuous ocean
of the literary bureaucrats
touching the wet blood
and the rotting bones of many others
brought here as I was
our work denounced
criticized as pornography
and counter-revolutionism
our persons branded
as spineless treacherous traitors
while the Union of Writers and Artists
the bureaucrats attached to this institution
as the center for the dissemination
of Cuban Culture
The Committee of Revolutionary Orientation
L'Illusion Lyrique
The Censorship Board
used their power
to further their not always distinguised
careers
at the cost of less conventional spirits
It is in this prison of Boniato
Sweet Potato East
among the human biological experiments
the asphxxiated, and piled up corpses
silenced ghosts
that I plant, I reap and carry the stones
Here I construct my world
but I do not eat the harvest
I strengthen my song
for the millennium
this is my hope
I ride to the blue mountain peaks of the Sierra Maestra
that once put an end to capitilism and usurers
Here I see the children dancing
adorned in red and black
Rhapsodically reciting my cry
beneath a poem of Heredia
in a enlightened
flower transplanted
cultivated garden
that once bloomed from ignorance
A loving tribute to the freespirits , the writers;imprisoned, tortured, beaten and killed under the Castro Regime
Poetry by TheresaCecilia
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Written on 2006-04-09 at 23:56
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L' ILLUSION LYRIQUE
"Man is the most marvelous being in all of of nature. Torturing,destroying, exterminating him for his ideas is more than a Human Rights violation, it is a crime against all of Humanity." - Armando ValladaresL' ILLUSION LYRIQUE
I rise up above the exhaustion of the task
This is the land where I suffered
lashes after lashes
my mouth to the ground
I rowed in the tumultuous ocean
of the literary bureaucrats
touching the wet blood
and the rotting bones of many others
brought here as I was
our work denounced
criticized as pornography
and counter-revolutionism
our persons branded
as spineless treacherous traitors
while the Union of Writers and Artists
the bureaucrats attached to this institution
as the center for the dissemination
of Cuban Culture
The Committee of Revolutionary Orientation
L'Illusion Lyrique
The Censorship Board
used their power
to further their not always distinguised
careers
at the cost of less conventional spirits
It is in this prison of Boniato
Sweet Potato East
among the human biological experiments
the asphxxiated, and piled up corpses
silenced ghosts
that I plant, I reap and carry the stones
Here I construct my world
but I do not eat the harvest
I strengthen my song
for the millennium
this is my hope
I ride to the blue mountain peaks of the Sierra Maestra
that once put an end to capitilism and usurers
Here I see the children dancing
adorned in red and black
Rhapsodically reciting my cry
beneath a poem of Heredia
in a enlightened
flower transplanted
cultivated garden
that once bloomed from ignorance
A loving tribute to the freespirits , the writers;imprisoned, tortured, beaten and killed under the Castro Regime
Poetry by TheresaCecilia
Read 817 times
Written on 2006-04-09 at 23:56
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