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BODY-REMEMBRANCE

 

BODY-REMEMBRANCE

RaXel Gallegos

I remember you 

every time I look into the mirror 

I remember you 

in my brown skin 

in my curly hair 

In every prayer 

In every sigh 

In the colors of your mantle 

Mexican pink 

your shawl of braided threads 

in the red blood of the nopal 

I remind you. in this "WAR AGAINST FORGETTENESS" -EZLN 

The wind itself won't let me forget you 

whispers your songs to me 

your deep dreams 

your weeping cries 

that drown me in the darkness. 

I remember you 

in the eternal passion of the cumbias 

in my bare feet 

in the sway of my hips 

to the rhythm of the son jarocho. Rhythm of eternal flowers 

I remember you in the burning fire 

healer of pains 

in the flowing water 

in the earth that still remembers your name and calls me: "Mijx, come home," and I pray to the mother who welcomes you in her womb: "Aqui estoy" (here I am). 

and the birds tell me stories of when they met you and let me know that you are well, they pass me your messages on their flights. 

And I sob without knowing why. I don't remember your face, but you never forgot me, and today, at the same hour, at the same instant, our prayers become one: the eternal love of ancestors, 

flowing through my body, a ritual, a ceremony of self, a ceremony of life, of an eternal love that not even 500 years of colonization have been able to erase. Aho.