martes, 18 de diciembre de 2012

[Poema] Martir por Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy es una poeta y activista revolucionaria india que se ha posicionado del lado de los oprimidos alzados en armas en Guerra Popular en su tierra. Por ello ha recibido amenazas de muerte.



Martyr

A militant, whom my lines
cannot hold whom my lips
cannot kiss whom my eyes
cannot hide whom my memory
cannot mark with a date
of birth or even death.

No knowledge of her village
laid waste, then displaced and
no mention of her songs
seeking to seize a state and
no sign of a red star where
she had stashed her dreams.

In this book of martyrs
only that blood-drenched
story in three bold words:
“One Woman Comrade”
to say she died fighting
for the people.

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