Monday, July 14, 2014

CHILDREN OF PAIN AND SORROW

These faceless or defaced children in Zohreh Khaleghi's painting, dedicated to New Orleans Children Hospital, are standing in front of nocturnal back drop , covered in bloody dress and silently screaming in deep desperation. No one is to hear them in far-flung days and night . No one left in history to listen to them nor witnessing their misery. You call then children of pain and sorrow . They have no game to play. They are games to be played upon by ruthless, slave takers, blood thirsty patriarchs , coming from hell , looking like devils or their version in contemporary era with unheard names which is the namesake of Killers. I mean Killers , with capital K...what else there is to howl in this vast wilderness. How much longer to cry ?! O Shakespearean men and women of dark ages !

WCP:OCTAVIO PAZ:EYE


اكتاويو پاز : چشم
Tus ojos son la patria del relámpago y de la lágrima,
silencio que habla,
tempestades sin viento, mar sin olas,
pájaros presos, doradas fieras adormecidas,
topacios impíos como la verdad
OCTAVIO PAZ
Posted by Jorge Benlloch
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