Tupac Enrique Acosta

Decía la Llorona
Cuando se miraba pá' el norte-

"Y mis hijos- Qué les pasará?
Reconocerán la lucha
de sus tatas?
Sentirán el calor
de su historia indígena,
como yo los enseñé?
Serán ahogados
en el río
en la historia europea , ó nomás
mojados?"

There were stars
before the sky was turned black by warguns
of alien armies who wished to put flame to
the land, searing scars of inhumanity and greed.
The echoes still roar
hollow eyed sockets of false reality still see those rockets,
scorching the earth with titles of manifest destiny, against whom
they stood,
they who are we
Indigenous Peoples
understood.
The stars will
return in the sky.

Photo by Eduardo Barraza/BARRIOZONA

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