With this ring I promise you – Gabriela M.

FREE VERSE REVOLUTION

with this ring

I promise you

I will erase the shadows of the slave trade

locked in the heat of samba in the nights of carnival

coins put on the eyes of dead at funerals

-forgotten tickets of the unforgotten underworld- will shine like stars

with stolen leaves from the old olive tree

I’ll wash your temple covered by the sand and blood of the bullfights

and mend the bones of sugar skulls spread on the Aztec lands

I will return your boat to shore with one single I love you...