I DO NOT OFFER YOU PEACE
I do not offer you peace, brother man,
'cause peace is not a medal
peace is an enslaved land
and it is our duty set her free.
I ask from you the love, the tenderness
the muscle, the cries, and the firm grasp,
the swiftness of feet, the song's fire,
the blaze of a glance and of desire.
Equiped with light, with happiness,
with dreams, bodies and souls,
we will go out to take peace by blows
even if we have to tear it appart.
Jorge Debravo
English Translation by Eddy Mora
Incluido en Antología poética Hispanoamericana. A.J. Márquez. Ediciones Altosa. Madrid. 1999.