CANCION DE LA EXILIADA (PARA SISTERFIRE)

Me cortaron la voz:
dos voces tengo
En dos lenguas distintas
mi canto vierto.
Me arrancaron el sol
Dos soles nuevos
como dos relucientes
tambores sueno.
Me aislaron de mi gente
y hoy a mi pueblo
vuelve mi canto doble
como en un eco.
Y a pesar de los oscuro
de este destierro,
se enciende hoy mi poesia
contra un espejo.
Me cortaron la voz:
dos voces tengo.

SONG OF THE EXILED (FOR SISTERFIRE)

They cut off my voice:
I grew two voices.
In two different languages
my song I pour.
They took away my sun:
Two brand new suns
like two resplendent drums
today I'm playing.
Isolated I was
from all my people;
my twin songs are returning
like in an echo.
And despite the darkness
of this exile,
my poem sets afire
against a mirror.
They cut off my voice,
I grew two voices.

by Alicia Partnoy

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