Selected Verses:
Silence
(translation of Silencio)
by Luis S. González-Acevedo
My audible silence deafens.
My words flee from the ear.
I hear the chant that softens
my Latino heart so feared.
It only softens me.
Alone, I hear my soul.
My Hispanic spirit drinks
cascading waters in their silent roar…
…My soul screams in a deaf world.
Deaf, the world ignores my song.
Toward my own America, this herald sings.
Only she can hear my voice.
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