In Cuba: Family: Manuel and Madai.

En Cuba: Familia: Manuel y Madai.

Manuel and Madai 2019
In Cuba

©2019 by Alice Walker
 
In Cuba
These are the people
You wish to hurt.
I believe there is a penalty
For harming those
Who are good.
This grandfather,
Smiling with joy;
This granddaughter
Oblivious of danger
Happy to have arrived
In his arms.

This is a good man.
Holding a delightful human infant
Who does not yet know
Someone lives to plot her starvation
Across the narrow swath
Of water that she will grow
To believe
Should keep her safe.

These are my family.
As sure as there is a heaven
On this earth
We were meant to be
Caring for and adoring
Of each other
In spite of a history
And a propaganda
That attempts
To make commonsense love
Insane.

On hearing Western Union will no longer be permitted to send money wires to Cuba.
 

En Cuba
© 2019 por Alice Walker
 

En Cuba
son estas las personas
que quieres herir.
Creo que hay un castigo
por dañar a aquellos
que son buenos.

Este abuelo
que sonríe alegre;
esta nieta
ajena al peligro
feliz de haber llegado
en sus brazos.

Este es un buen hombre.
que sostiene una encantadora criatura humana
que no sabe todavía
que alguien vive para idear su hambre
al otro lado de la franja estrecha
de agua en que ella crecerá
creyendo
que la mantendría a salvo.

Estos son mi familia.

Tan seguros como que hay un cielo
en esta tierra
estábamos destinados para
cuidar y querer
el uno al otro
a pesar de una historia
y una propaganda
que pretende
hacer del cuerdo amor
algo insensato.