Orphan Princes

We came from the same land

We are brothers

And sisters

of the same mother

I knew you from long ago

Before we were born…

Mother gave birth

one day her pregnant womb

Was ripped open violently

By men raised in arms

Our Father..

El Padre Nuestro

The Savior

El Salvador 

Descended from

the heavens

And raped her

Virgin soul.

She bled until death

Under the burning sun

Of San Salvador

Among shrieks of pain

And songs of revolution

My brother

You and I

The orphan Princes

Baring the karmas

Of our mother

And the karmas

of our father

We travel through the web

Of this organic cell

Continuing the mission

Of the ones before us…

From way, way back

Before we were even born.