Our Tormented Mother

[Leticia_g]

Our Tormented Mother by Leticia Gutierrez Velazquez



My children! Open your eyes!
Don’t fall prey to these predators!
They only seek to disguise themselves as lambs
To seek your confidence, in hope that you will fall prey!

Don’t! Can’t you see what you are doing to yourself, to me?
You are wandering around, sedated by the luxuries of no care
Learn to stand on your own!
Work! Don’t let them think that you are gullible people!

Do for your own! Can’t you feel the torment in me?
This is from seeing what has become of you!
My children, know, that your people are strong!
You can do it! Don’t victimize your offspring!

I have seen what they have done to you!
They have made you, so helpless!
You think they are helping? Think again!
They are hindering your growth, your independence, your self esteem!

For I wish to see you stand on your own! This is what a mother wants!
Yes! To be able to provide for their children, the right way
Educate yourself! Do for yourself! Don’t fall victim!
Don’t depend on anyone, but your own faculties!

You can do it! It is in your blood!
It is what our forefathers wanted of us!
Don’t destroy me, because in doing so
You destroy yourself! You destroy the very core of our Island!

[Suki]

Novel of "La Candida Erendida y su Abuela Desalmada". Puerto Rico is the granddaughter in the story and the Abuela is the USA.

Sometimes I think humanity has not changed much in many milleniums. It has not. People who lived under rigid monarchies and the hereditary ruler system thought it immutable and an act of God....for all perpetuity. So did those under feudalism. And the under the horrors of early capitalism and the Industrial Revolution with its Robber Barons and naked Manifest Destiny. I still am amazed that people like Walker in Nicaragua existed, with their mentality and thinking in such arrogant terms. Don't they see the people whom they disregard and treat like colonials are human beings just like them, deserving of dignity and choice and all the things that are innate to our species...the human race. I like that song:

No lo va a impedir los generales, ni los que tienen intereses. Creceremos. Creceremos. Mucho amor hermana. Suki.

[Stanley]

La abuela y Erendira---------- that is a stretch Suki.

I think PR is more like a cat in the house who is a pain in the butt, but no one has the courage to take it to the animal shelter.