Toda Guerra es por Tierra - Rebecca del Rio

[Larry Robinson]

Toda Guerra es por Tierra

All war is for land,  though
it knocks at our doors dressed
in austere religious robes or cradling
law books in the thoughtless
crook of its arm.

The Land is wordless, she welcomes
lovers, rapists, pilgrims and psychopaths.
She opens, accepts destiny
Dependent on her children’s
memory of the sweet root
of suckle playing on their palates.

Warriors, her children, bewildered 
and dumb look to the clerics, 
to politicians, poor substitutes
for gods—perverted, cruel understudies
to the One who holds them all.

They seek Her without gazing
beneath their heavy, brutal boots.

She is patient, sorrowful,
She is here.

	- Rebecca del Rio