- Dialectics of the Homeland
- 1 .
- Beyond the rainy cloud, the rose, and the pagan dream
- and remnants of the old pledge.
- The lovers are no more the lovers
- And the murderers are similarly transposed,
- O homeland, drowning in mystic symbols and in blood,
- Lost homeland!
- Teach us to exist in the age of lost things
- Teach us to unlock barred doors
- To fertilize a barren land
- Discover in you the cloud and the rose
- Illuminate the tired masses.
- Homeland of lost things,
- Teach us to conceive trees and children,
- When the promised sun and the promised wind
- Are concealed or revealed
- Teach us that the murderers are visible in you
- And the murdered invisible.
- 2.
- Glory to the dead, who dispersed among the people
- who burned:
- -Who ploughs fire?
- -They plundered all secrets.
- -Now?
- Apes huddled around the tended fire.
- 3.
- The blocked horizon rained.
- Who can dam a river between one finger and another?
- Who steals a moon that blossoms at a marriage of simple
peasants?
- Homeland of the newborn mother,
- We have concealed a wound, exposed another
- Witnessed blood as water, water as blood,
- We did not fall,
- Beyond the rainy cloud, the rose, and the pagan dream
- bridges extend,
- beyond the noose is the lily
- green corpses pressed in the books of simple people
- and in the memory of the struggling masses.
- The peaks of death are torture and the taut tones of the
voice
- The peaks of death are magnificent, for who can possess
- his own death lacerated by
- obstructed paths?
4 .
they passed at the twilight of revolution of lost things
- Who owns the truth of death?
- The customary slates are split:
- Death without death
- Voice without voce
- Homeland without homeland.
- Only the poor, the workers, the outcasts,
- the elect at the dawn of the revolution
- remain loyal to the wound, to the truth of death,
- to the meaning of the song.