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"For You We Resist" - Message from Antonio Guerrero to Women on their Day / Mensaje por el Día Internacional de la Mujer

3/9/2011

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Writing a few lines that can cover everything that we, the Five, feel for those women who have given, and give us so much love, guidance, encouragement and assistance every day is not easy.

They gather the thoughts and beautiful words, necessary words. But above all, we want to say that we carry you in our hearts every day and resist, we are strong and we are always optimistic.

We recognize that you, the women, are those who have more participation in our battle, you are those that every day wake up thinking about what to do and how to create new initiatives, you are the ones who write to us, by all routes, from all over the world, expressing infinite love and  indestructible brotherhood, you are the ones that make us see more clearly that  a better world is possible.

As José Martí expressed in his time, and now with more reason we can say: "... when the woman is shaken and helps ... when the cultured and virtuous woman anoints the work with the honey of her affection - the work is invincible."

Here goes a poem I wrote on July 1, 2001, in a punishment cell.


TO YOU WOMAN

To you woman, who knows
about the delirium and the dust of the time,
I want to give my lyricism of confinement
like a blind man looking to the moon.

To you woman, who occupies
the altar of this beautiful craziness,
I propose you to place
your salt and your foam within my verse.

I have dreamed a light that follows us
and promises to let us in the dark.
I have dreamed your clothes dispersed
all along a pier that augurs.

To you woman, who comes
valiant to the center of the fear,
I gift a rose and I swear
a note of love against the hate.

To you woman, who touches
the highest of my thought
I plant my shadow and my story
in the sweet warmth of your breast.

I have dreamed that I love you and you love me.
I have dreamed that my dream is certain.

Five Embraces.
¡We will win!
Rene, Fernando, Ramon, Gerardo and Tony.
March 7, 2011

GRANMA
*************************************************
Mensaje por el Día Internacional de la Mujer

!FELICIDADES EN EL DIA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER!

Escribir unas lineas que puedan abarcar todo lo que sentimos los cinco por esas mujeres que tanto amor, guia, aliento y ayuda nos han dado y dan cada dia no es facil.

Se agolpan los pensamientos, las palabras hermosas, las palabras necesarias. Pero, ante todo, les queremos decir que las llevamos en nuestros corazones cada dia y por ustedes resistimos, somos fuertes y somos siempre optimistas.

Hemos de reconocer que son ustedes, las mujeres, las que mas participacion tienen en nuestra batalla, son ustedes las que cada dia amanecen pensando que hacer y quienes crean nuevas iniciativas, son ustedes las que mas nos escriben por todas las vias desde todos los rincones del mundo, expresando un infinito amor y una indestructible hermandad, son ustedes las que con mas claridad nos hacen ver que un mundo mejor si es posible.

Expreso Jose Marti en su tiempo, y hoy con mas razon podemos decir: "...cuando la mujer se estremece y ayuda,...cuando la mujer culta y virtuosa unge la obra con la miel de su cariño-- la obra es invencible"

Aqui les va un poema que escribi en el 2001, un dia de julio, en una celda de castigo.

A TI MUJER

A ti mujer que sabes
del delirio y el polvo del tiempo
quiero dar mi lirismo de encierro
como un ciego mirando a la luna.

A ti mujer que ocupas
el altar de esta bella locura
te propongo tu sal y tu espuma
las coloques dentro de mi verso.

He soñado una luz que nos sigue
y promete dejarnos a oscuras.
He soñado tus ropas dispersas
a lo largo de un muelle que augura.

A ti mujer que llegas
valerosa hasta el centro del miedo
te regalo una rosa y pronuncio
contra el odio de amor una nota.

A ti mujer que tocas
lo mas alto de mi pensamiento
te coloco mi sombra y mi historia
en el dulce calor de tu seno.

He soñado que te amo y me amas.
He soñado que es cierto mi sueño.



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