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Crossroads
I
Someone said to love your enemy.
Someone said thou shalt not kill.
Someone said to love your neighbor as yourself.
Someone said you can’t go there but
Someone said to follow your heart.
Someone said it isn’t possible but
Someone said yes it is,
yes it is.
Gary Lawless
Here we are, in the hope and love of our friendship.
Here we are, with the sound inside our hearts.
Here we are, happy like the new world,
A world without darkness and fury.
Here we are, in the hands of love,
The sweet love of the earth.
Two countries,
And the air, and the fragrance,
And the smiles of justice.
Yes, my verses are all truth and joy.
Manuel
Alberto Garcia Alonso
II
Eleggua opens the way
Gives us a good road
A road of saints and spirits
A way into this green land
Smoke and a prayer
Rum and a flower
Drum and a song
A road of saints and spirits
Eleggua opens the way.
Gary Lawless
Notice
This is my life,
Swift like the flowers
And I never scream
In the middle
Of the night.
I don’t believe in fate.
I don’t believe in coldness.
I don’t believe in silences.
This is the party of the truth
The truth coming with silence.
Manuel
Alberto Garcia Alonso
III
I am waiting for a boat,
Just offshore, stalled
In the fog –
A boat of revolution,
A boat of hope and joy.
I am waiting for the men,
Long hair and beards, smoking
Big cigars, who will
Ride down from the mountains on
Donkeys and mules.
I am waiting for whole
Towns to rise up,
Calling for justice, for liberty.
I am waiting for the courage
To step into my life,
Move toward the sounds of
People singing, join them in
Our walk to freedom.
Gary Lawless
The Revolution
At the edge of the fog
Is a bleak, windy spot; discovery,
Reality and certainty.
People sing, translucent
As a light that sprouts
From the children.
I also wait,
Slow in motion,
Until my own freedom.
Manuel
Alberto Garcia Alonso
IV
The Eternal Harmony
I have a dream:
The clear wind,
The transparence of the air,
The marvelous fragrance
Of the earth,
The friendship between
The caribou and the men,
The splendid silence
Of the night,
The agreement
With the flowers,
The incredible
Message of
Eternal harmony,
The eternal harmony,
The harmony…
Manuel
Alberto Garcia Alonso
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