Poem
Fernando Rendón
Zoo
The beast is the cageThe future comes to us like a caterpillar joy is not eager
The past is a dormouse that snores with few beautiful dreams
Hope is a white phoenix
And my eagerness is a scarlet gazelle hunted down by the king’s
greyhounds
This zoo is a city of cages in each door padlocks and
rusty locks in every window bars and eyes
In the corners apes that deny being related to Darwin night
panthers with fire eyes crocodiles that cry as if
regretting falling in love boas with the appetite of bishops and bankers
macaws with the colors of poetry hyenas that laugh reluctantly
before the tarnished day
lions that lose their dignity and their mane hieroglyphical tigers
men looking into their eyes into the infinite eyes of the animals
and many jailers chained to their irons
When you grow up help us open all the cages.
To the children
© Translation: 2005, Nicolás Suescún
Zoo
Zoo
La fiera es la jaulaEl futuro nos llega como oruga no guarda afán el júbilo
El pasado es un lirón que ronca con pocos sueños hermosos
La esperanza es un blanco fénix
Y mi afán es una gacela escarlata perseguida por los galgos del rey
Este zoo es una ciudad de jaulas en cada puerta candados y herrumbrosas cerraduras
en cada ventana barrotes y ojos
En los rincones simios que niegan ser parientes de Darwin panteras nocturnas con ojos
de incendio cocodrilos que lloran como arrepentidos del amor boas con apetito
de obispos y banqueros guacamayos con los colores de la poesía hienas que
ríen sin ganas ante el día deslustrado
leones que pierden la dignidad y la melena tigres jeroglíficos
hombres asomados a sus ojos en los ojos infinitos de los animales
y muchos carceleros encadenados a sus hierros
Cuando crezcáis ayudadnos a abrir todas las jaulas.
A los niños
© 1985, Fernando Rendón
From: Contrahistoria
Publisher: Ediciones Coopiss, Medellín
From: Contrahistoria
Publisher: Ediciones Coopiss, Medellín
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Zoo
The beast is the cageThe future comes to us like a caterpillar joy is not eager
The past is a dormouse that snores with few beautiful dreams
Hope is a white phoenix
And my eagerness is a scarlet gazelle hunted down by the king’s
greyhounds
This zoo is a city of cages in each door padlocks and
rusty locks in every window bars and eyes
In the corners apes that deny being related to Darwin night
panthers with fire eyes crocodiles that cry as if
regretting falling in love boas with the appetite of bishops and bankers
macaws with the colors of poetry hyenas that laugh reluctantly
before the tarnished day
lions that lose their dignity and their mane hieroglyphical tigers
men looking into their eyes into the infinite eyes of the animals
and many jailers chained to their irons
When you grow up help us open all the cages.
To the children
© 2005, Nicolás Suescún
From: Contrahistoria
From: Contrahistoria
Zoo
The beast is the cageThe future comes to us like a caterpillar joy is not eager
The past is a dormouse that snores with few beautiful dreams
Hope is a white phoenix
And my eagerness is a scarlet gazelle hunted down by the king’s
greyhounds
This zoo is a city of cages in each door padlocks and
rusty locks in every window bars and eyes
In the corners apes that deny being related to Darwin night
panthers with fire eyes crocodiles that cry as if
regretting falling in love boas with the appetite of bishops and bankers
macaws with the colors of poetry hyenas that laugh reluctantly
before the tarnished day
lions that lose their dignity and their mane hieroglyphical tigers
men looking into their eyes into the infinite eyes of the animals
and many jailers chained to their irons
When you grow up help us open all the cages.
To the children
© 2005, Nicolás Suescún
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