The traveler.
Juan D. Jimenez. 1963 (Habana)
"The traveler."
The light in the living room
discovered the arrival of the traveler.
Nobody knew that the stranger,
stiff and cold old man,
before he was a young man,
an erratic migrant
on the roads that do not end
on the edges of the earth
and that his eyes turned off
for the years that accumulated in his gut
they stopped following
his feet tired of searching,
- pilgrim in time, -
the freedom that did not exist
nor in the American dream.
Some came to see him,
comfortable and quiet,
sleeping in his coffin
like yesterday's dead,
like the dead today,
with a wrinkled forehead
and the hair of the color
of winter snow
of that day in January
when he left alone
and almost naked, without saying goodbye
of nobody and imagining
a distant country that would embrace
and he would make love to it
with a bottle of wine,
with a piece of bread
on the table
and the sweat from his hands
tired of everyday work.
In the middle of the gloomy room,
with dull flowers and jasmine,
there was the traveler who returned
to the home where he was born
and a very old mother who wore
the folds of her skin
crossing the continent of life,
she sobbed without having tears
by the presence of her son,
of your last loved one
that he had lived more than 100 years
and buried half of humanity...
About this poem
It is a poem to an emigrant who returns to his land after dying....
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Written on January 01, 2022
Submitted by resfalgio on July 11, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,318 |
Words | 261 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 46 |
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