POEMS
TO BREATHE AND TO LIGHT A FIRE
When you came, I jumped off the roof
to breathe.
When you set foot on the road,
I was walking on water
& still, I was dog-thirsty.
Now, I don’t know what to do
or should I do at this hour?
They have already announced
for my head, dead or alive.
Do you think I will be here tomorrow?
To taste your saliva,
to smell the river
between your mountains and valleys;
to hide inside you.
Do I still have time?
To talk,
to sit,
to breathe and to light a fire.
SI SE PUEDE
I see this today.
I taste this moment’s earth, wind & water.
I stand on my two feet
& snuggle the freedom of my hands,
& see how our manmade borders, color of skins, and
human castes
tossed away like the uprooted trees in this tornado
of changes.
How do I convince you
that I am choked with flooded words rising
& burning in my head.
My eyes are salt- lakes,
bonfire grills my chest.
Let us walk on the fire, barefoot
you & me even only for this day.
