AMAR A LA EXTRANJERA
Those things
I felt for you in Spanish
and talked about in English
with my therapist
my cat
and the inhabitants of this Tower of Babel, I
just
cannot bring myself to repeat them
anymore
In the language I use on the daily, daily basis
to get jobs, tobacco and cappuccinos.
Inside my tongue
there is a foreign blood
and inside that blood there is still
another foreign blood
- I must say I go from blood to blood
like an international vampire -
Why ask why
I won't ask anymore questions
I'm fed up with getting answers
I won't repeat myself in circles of damn pain
My traveling heart
is learning everything there is to know
about foreign towns
foreign tongues
and silence.
© Juvenal Acosta(1991)
