Network Aztlan Latino Chicano Comunidades Transnacionales

Noche De Los Muertos

by Phil Goldvarg

I lagrima a tus huesos

    born in some mass grave

y bilando con tu alma

    half chained into pain,

I bring chisme y comida,

    Pan de Muerto

        baked in Aztec ovens,

bread that resisted attempted conquests

    and the flesheaters hunger

        for the gold skin of our ancestors,

I mix sangre con mis lagrimas,

    lay them gently on la tierra de nosotros,

watch them sleep deep

    into the center of anguish y esperanzas

        that are layered across petrified bones,

cantamos todo la noche,

    ancient rhythms that circle unplanned death

        and uncover the imprisoned disappeared ones,

I engrave familia on cold stone

    that sits unmoved and tearless

        con corazon fria,

            like the ice of a killer's eye,

I break mis huesos,

    pour their brown besos

        across your grieving voice

that echoes in chambered dungeons

    searching for release,

tu Dia de Los Muertos

    is every day

        and flows into suenos de la noche,

I lay drunk and cold

    on your deceiving blanket,

        mascara verde,

            rainbow illusion,

your breath is a mariposa

    en las sombras de mis ojos,

wings that vibrate

    strange answers to mis preguntas,

I bring congas to sing mis palabras

    y conchas to sound an old language

        that ancestors have gifted to us,

I become danzante,

    feathered Quetzalcoatl,

        dawn dancer,

symbol of redemption

    rising from the flames of hope,

I burn my skin

    upon tu sangre seca,

watch them embrace con sonrisas

    that move past la noche

        and kiss the sun,

I lagrima tus huesos,

    mis huesos,

los ninos who lay among disconnected dreams

    in some unmarked grave,

the tortured screams de mi gente

    buried in cement walls

        of unknown prisons,

I am el rio de recuerdos

    who washes away

        pain's memory,

tu eres mi otro yo,

    you are me, I am you,

        aqui en la Noche de Los Muertos.

Phil Goldvarg

Hgold42734@aol.com