Monday, June 16, 2025

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal


Exiled 


I pass the stranger 

on the street. 

He wears a gray coat, 

the color of the sky.

The light is gone, 

exiled for the day. 

The world is changing. 

The stranger speaks 

in a foreign tongue. 

His sickness not 

long for asylum.





To Rainboot


I listen to the stone dreamer, 

who straddles the sun

and brushes off the sunlight.


I listen to his wise words as

he runs out of time.

He has no time for regrets.


I listen in as his voice faints.

His soft voice is as

compassionate as it is brief.


I listen to him because he

is a truth teller.

He does not feel so great.


Still, he rarely complains

even when it starts


to rain and he’s without boots.





The Stones Whisper


It takes little to die. 

The stones whisper 

To the plants who 

Keep them company. 

Mischievously,

The stones spend hour

After hour talking

About death to

The plants, who feel

Suicidal as a

Result.  They begin

To wilt and bend.

The stones continue

To make the beautiful

Plants sad with their

Talk about death. 

It is out of pure boredom 

Which makes the stones

Speak about death to 

The plants and also 

Out of jealousy 

For their soft and 

Gentle features.


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