Lina Zeron

BURNING COAL

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To erase me from the earth is useless pretension

Not the fever rampant at night,

not the screams squeezed, out of my body

or all his poison devouring my womb.

ferocious pain stalking me.

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I refuse to be just another worm in the grass

a piece of burning coal,

or sawdust filled skull.

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I'm not dust returning to dust

or useless obituary in the newspaper.

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I'm stronger than the despicable cells

reproducing daily.

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I am the flood that erases the roads,

turbulence of dunes in the desert.

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Death will not defeat me.