SONG OF HOPE
- Daisy Yamora, Nicaragua
(trans. James Black, Bernardo
Garcia-Pandavenes, & Cliff Ross)
One day the fields will be forever green
and the earth will be black, sweet and moist.
Our children will grow tall on her
and the children of our children.
And they will be as free as the trees
and the birds of the wilderness.
Each morning they will wake in the joy of having life
and will know that the earth was reconqured for them.
One day . . .
Today we plough the parched fields
but each furrow is soaked with blood.
Aint' I A Woman! A Book of Woman's poetry
From Around the World, Edited by Illona Linthwaite
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