Thursday, April 06, 2006

Poema en inglés que escribí acerca de la obra "The Giver" de Lois Lowry

Letter to the Receiver!


Oh, poor Receiver this letter is for you!
A song that you have never heard,
A package of information that makes you blue.

Don’t reject my gifts, they are yours,
Because you're different,
You're special.

I open you doors!
Doors of knowledge, of memories,
Of counsel, of pain, but also of joy!

I don’t want you to feel bad,
But like the others you don’t act
You see beyond, like me
You see color, I see you

You can feel and love!
They don’t, they only follow.
I command, they act.
You learn and you react.

I’m the Giver I send,
You are the Receiver you learn.
Your tomorrow you can’t escape.
The past your present is,
The future doesn’t exist
Learn my pupil, learn!

What can I say?
You were born to do this.
This people they need you!
You will hold all of their memories,
You will counsel them to do well
To choose, to do.

They don’t see what you tell them,
They will trust your word like law,
They will do according to your word.
Your are their teacher now.
They will never see you again with the same eyes.

Your friends are not your classmates
I am! Me the Giver!
You classroom it's not the same
You have been set in another place.
You learning will be specialized,
You learning will be great.

Don’t compare yourself to others,
They are not like you.
You have what they don’t want,
They keep what you want.

I’ve learned to be a receiver and a giver.
It’s time for you, they are counting on you.
Learn fast my young lad,
We have no time to loose.

Please, relieve me of this pain,
I want to be released of this burden,
I want to be released of this life.

My life was already taken,
My daughter too.
Please replace me and stop this present!
Please give me a future, I have no past!

Please, think about this people!
I know they don’t understand our pains
Maybe it’s unfair,
But to be with my daughter is fair.

Don’t leave them, they need you!
They cannot live with themselves.
Don’t abandon them because of your pain,
They don’t understand your cause.

Bye, my friend!
I bid you farewell!
I cannot help you,
They need me here.
Bye, my Receiver!


-Salt City Rider

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