a Puerto Rican citizen of the United States
by Julia Lopez details from Illuminate Me
15 days in the desert
Homenaje for the children
he was the most himself in the waters he was flung into the air he laughed joyous sound that comes when you are lifted so high your hairs are on end just a hint of danger he was lifted more than humanly possible floating through space tasting freedom freedom granted by the release of his enslaved mother’s desperate arms no place to land but into the deep dark waters that cleansed and engulfed him his body full of life his mouth was still open when it made contact with the strange ocean it took him acknowledged the sacrifice he was the most himself in the waters it took him he took up the cross floating accepting his fate took up the cross ferocious and flailing life before his eyes he took it up he was the most himself in the waters the passage between patria and this land this land of
accents, foreign syllables twisted
tense stiff lips moving pushing spitting out words he could not understand he
was the most himself in the waters the passage between patria and this land lost at sea
To the Ancestors
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