Monday, August 17, 2009

Rosario Castellanos

DAYBREAK
.
What to do at death? Turn
your face to the wall?
Grab the shoulders of the closest
person, who will listen?
Do you run like a man on fire,
to the finish?
.
What rituals guide this ceremony?
Who owns the final agony? Who smooths the sheets?
Who watches from the last clear mirror?
.
In the end no mother nor heirs exist.
.
No sobbing. Terrible silence.
.
All become the attentive, incredulous face
of the other side.
.
What is happening is not true.

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