CRY OF THE BEATRAYED EARTH

From her womb
there seems to come the echo of a thousand souls:
“The earth is the bone of yours bones,
the flesh of your flesh,
and the shadow of your existence.”

Down in the womb of the earth
among the tea bundles and bones,
there lies a coffin…
There is a corpse rotting there
for each waltz and tango that play here.
There is a dark secret hidden below every feet of the earth.
The echo of a thousand souls is still haunting
those who are easily seduced.

The earth looked at me…its face wrinkled
like the face of an old sage.
I felt the shame in its faltering being,
an end ess shame
Because I have betrayed it;
Because we have all betrayed it!…
In the end,though,
overwhelmed and amok,
poor like Job,
He returns back to the earth.