I demand

( Cristina Castello ARG - Yo demando - Tran: Gabriel Bernstein)

I demand for death

to lay down its scythes.

I demand for death

to be more nest than life is

for those who die with horror in their eyes.

I demand the demons that give birth to monsters,

who turn off lives, in horror of Power missiles

I demand for death to 

revive  Picasso, Lorca, Chopin

And that Guernica and poetry and piano,

At five o’clock in the afternoon

At five in the afternoon without shadows,

to be the J'accuse of Émile Zola

I demand the skies to rise innocence

I demand courage and urgency, to peace

I invoke Eluard, my mother and Celan,

The stars, rainbow and sun,

Humberto and Robert Desnos,

My father, León Felipe and Yeats.

I claim for them to embrace and shine,

like they embrace and shine endlessly over me,

To each life massacred in fear

To each dream waiting to be eve.

And to every swallow in Iraq.

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De « Soif » - Cristina Castello

Éditions L’Harmattan, Paris 2004