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“When the actions of nation states rewrite themselves in the gruesome ecstasies of the day poetry must rethink its body in whose corporeality we fearfully dream”

A.H. Itwaru, Body Rites.

Prof. Arnold Itwaru, teaching anti racism anti imperialism for 60 years. Author of 13 books of scholarly books as well as fiction and poetry. Creator of the anti racist anti imperialist Caribbean Studies full degree program at New College, University of Toronto, and the 17 year long conference series “Racism and National Consciousness”

HEMOS SOBREVIVIDO Y FUERTE ES NUESTRO CORAZÓN

hemos sobrevivido y fuerte es nuestro corazón y somos más

hemos sobrevivido y fuerte es nuestro corazón y somos más

a pesar de los asesinos y los depredadores que hanmancilladoelhorizonte de nuestrossueños hemos sobrevivido y fuerte es nuestro corazón y somos más

hemos sufrido y hemos aguantado pero somos más que eso somos la luz del mundo que se resiste a ser apagada en la bondad de nuestro corazón hemos vivido en largas noches de pena de agonía y de esperanza hemos crecido en los campos y las habitaciones de la traición y del dolor hemos crecido en las cosechas de los sueños de días mejores hemos crecido en el parpadeo de la luz del mundo que se resiste a ser apagada hemos crecido

pero somos más que eso somos más que un ceño fruncido en los imperios de la codicia somos más

somos más que una vigilia al caer de la tarde somosmás

somos el corazón de la esperanza latiendo latiendo y latiendo y latiendo y somosmás

somosmás

hemos sobrevivido y fuerte es nuestro corazón bueno es nuestrocorazón

somos la luz del mundo que se resiste a ser apagada somosmás

somos la luz del mundo que se resiste a ser apagada las hordas criminales del imperio de la avaricia no pueden destruirnos somos la luz del mundo que se resiste a ser apagada no importa cuántos millones de nosotros encarcelen torturen maten no pueden matar la verdad que somos somos la luz del mundo que se resiste a ser apagada ni importa lo que hagan los traidores somos la luz del mundo que abriga el corazón de la esperanza y somos más

fuerte es nuestro corazón y somos más bueno es nuestro corazón y somos más que esto fuerte es nuestra vida y somos más fuerte es nuestro amor y somos más que esto somos más

En esto estamos unidos juntos crecemos y somos más juntos florecemos y somos más hemos sobrevivido y fuerte es nuestro corazón y somos más somos la revolución y somos más y mucho más

WE HAVE SURVIVED AND OUR HEART IS STRONG

we have survived and our heart is strong and we are more we are so much more we have survived and our heart is strong and we are more than this despite the assassins and predators who have sullied the horizon of our dreams we have survived and our heart is strong and we are more we have suffered and we have endured and we are more than this we are the light of the world that will not be snuffed out and we are more than this we are so much more so much more

we are the light of the world that warms the heart of hope and we are more in the goodness of our heart have we lived and we are more in our long night of sorrow and agony and hope have we grown and we are more so much more in the fields and chambers of treachery and pain have we grown and we are more in the sowing of dreams of a better day have we grown and we are more in the flicker of the light of the world that will not be snuffed out have we grown and we are more we are more than this we are more than a frown on the empires of greed we are more than this we are more than an evening’s vigil we are more we are the heart of hope beating beating and beating and beating and we are more we are so much more we have survived and our heart is strong we have survived and our heart is good

we are the light of the world that warms the heart of hope and we are more we are the light of the world that will not be snuffed out and we are more the murderous hordes of imperial greed cannot destroy this and we are more

we are the light of the world they cannot snuff out and we are more we are so much more no matter how many millions of us they jail torture and kill they cannot kill the truth we are and we are more they cannot kill the truth we are we are so much more

we are the light of the world that will not be snuffed out no matter what the traitors do we are the light of the world that warms the heart of hope and we are so much more our heart is strong and we are more than this our heart is good and we are more we are more than this so much more our life is strong and we are more our love is strong and we are more than this we are so much more and we are in this together together in this we nurture and grow and we are more together in this we blossom and bear and we are more together in this we have survived together we will our heart is strong and we are more we are the revolucion and we are more we are so much more so much more

JOY

this is for you and you and you and you too you who work and work and work and dream of better days

this is for you burdened by this and by that taken away by this prodded by that you who know and know feel again the opening of the flower in the heart of the light the touch of a petal on the lips of our dreaming the blessing of the sun and the moon on the waters of our breathing

this is for you in sorrow in pain in fear you born in joy know again

more than sorrow

the joy you move towards know again

more than pain more than fear know again

you are more than this

you who appear in beauty and wonder and love know again

you appear in joy and greater joy and appear and yet appear beyond this arc of pain and sorrow and fear far from here know again

you move light into light in the joy alive everywhere

joy to you you born in joy

joy to you

Sacred Joy

you who move towards joy

may peace and peace and peace

may peace and peace and peace

may peace and peace and peace be with you

may peace and peace and peace

may peace and peace and peace

may peace and peace and peace be everywhere

you and you and you and you too