I take a moment to remember
or the moment takes me
impossible to tell anymore
when the songs flow free

too dark were the nights
too blinding the days
the fanatical craze
that destroyed innocents

an elegy thus
a roar of pain
and a promise of
new life that prevailed

never ever again
t'is the promise be
all the suffering
was not in vain.

t'is now the roar
come from the ocean of time
so that the people of now and here
never forget the past:

I see my body mangled
my organs strewn and hung
my blood steadily dripping
my heartbeat mute.

I see my tissues frozen
my bones pulverized to ash
my eyes, beads in a necklace
my fangs, grains in a vase.

I witness my own agony
my scream paralyzed in my lips
my nerves twisting, snapping
as a twig may snap.

I witness my own demise
the searing torture
sets my senses on fire
turns my consciousness to plasma
I become a nova.

I live my own passage
hell a postponement, a lie
glory but a delusion.

For all my vocal cords shriek
as they burn is
I LIVE!

December 5, 1484
by Cindy Aixmar Salgado