“I know about the loss of dignity. I know that when you take away a man's dignity you create a hole, a deep black hole full of desolation, humiliation, hatred, emptiness, grief, misfortune and loss, which becomes the worst hell.”

James Frey.

The night is a hungry wolf

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What dignity can there be when there is hunger involved?
In Venezuela there is hunger.
I put my face expressionless,
without a smile to be in tune with what was said.
The night is a hungry wolf, of light
that devours the instinct of being well
and open the horizon to the ghosts,
those that shake our feet in bed,
those who never sleep waiting for them to remember them
those who have died twice:
once in life and once in death.
Only the night remembers the sad ones,
while the world turns with the happy ones,
There is so much life in joy.
Who are the children of the night?
Who, those who tremble on its dark banks?
Who, those who hide behind their skirts?
The sad and the blind, travel without fear,
We need light in this black hole.
Sadness is a fire that ends with time.
but we have endured it for years
and nothing has happened, there is no change.
They say that only the wind dissipates it,
But, today there is no wind, no fire, no time.

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By Zeleira Cordero @zeleiracordero.

29/06/2019

The images are of Pixabay CC0 Creative Commons

Wolf illustration by FreddArguello
Silhouettes by lukasbieri

For your kind reading, thank you very much.

Cat
Simplemente Gracias

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