Inmigrante/Immigrant

Malinche*,

you traded us up,

you turned your back at us.

Traidora (traitor),

you forgot your roots,

you´re embarrassed of us.

Inmigrante,

you will never fit in,

we are inside you,

we, with our colours,

our sufferings,

our misfortunes.

We are inside of you,

there is no running

from us.

Falsa (fake),

the grass is not greener

on the other side.

It´s just a different kind of

grass.

You´ll miss us,

the sun on your forehead,

the taste of the sea in your lips,

the sand rubbing your skin,

the passion of our language.

Have you forgotten?

How good it feels to be with

your own?

To not be lost in translation.

Inmigrante, traidora, Malinche!

You´ll suffer!

*La Malinche was a Nahua woman that fell in love with Hernan Cortes and play a key role as an interpreter in the American Conquest. She is known as a traitor in every Mexican history book ever written.    

Loose & Gain

You loose, you loose a pencil, your keys, a button,
you loose your thoughts, your mind,
you loose an argument, a war.

You loose all the time,
you loose minutes, hours and days,
you loose youth,
you loose sight of what is important.

You loose,
yourself in people´s expectations,
your identity and nation,
a love one;
with age, with sickness,
with hatred
and fear.

The feeling of loosing,
the sinking feeling,
the hopeless feeling
of loosing and been
therefore lost,
in your own body,
in another place,
in another time.

You loose,
you have lost already.
The day will come
when you loose your
most precious possession.

You will loose and others
will loose you.
It will be a sad day.

You gain,
gain wisdom, friends,
opportunities, experiences.
You gain,
weight, beauty, wrinkles,
the ability to embrace it all.

You gain,
recognition, reassurance,
fame, wealth, health.

You become
resilient, a fighter,
a soldier,
an oak tree,
a marble statue.

You gain
certainty that there is nowhere and no one else,
you rather be,
you have to be,
you want to be.

You accumulate,
an ocean of thoughts,
and untapped dreams.

You gain power,
to manipulate,
mold,
hurt,
heel,
encourage or discourage,
create or destroy.

Use it wisely.