Fishes
in Genre - Hope Genre - Peace PH 2016 (Poems) Poems - English Poems by Angélica Santa Olaya

Fishes

by Angélica Santa Olaya

It’s not possible to scream:

Freedom!

while running behind the birds
lifting the scissors with the hand

On which mirror, river

or dark burnished stone

could we look some day

at ourselves destroying

with blinded eyes,
the crystal where
the sleeplessness fishes are shaking

looking for the peace?