09 / Romantic Collapse

Aquí No Avisa

The Land of Silver and Sorrow

Death is not the opposite
of anything you've known
it's just the weight of silence
in a house you thought you owned

Not an interruption
more a grammar you forgot
the sentence was always ending
you just misread the plot

Aquí no avisa
aquí no espera
se sienta y mira
te apaga entera

We give our children syllables
as if a name could bind
the light inside a body
to the architecture of the mind

We build our little altars
from the ordinary and the small
convinced that repetition
is a wall against the fall

Aquí no avisa
aquí no espera
se sienta y mira
te apaga entera

The bones make no distinction
between the merciful and cruel
the calcium remembers nothing
of the cathedral or the fool

The earth has no opinion
on the elegance of your grief
it processes the body
with the patience of a leaf

Aquí no avisa
aquí no espera
se sienta y mira
te apaga entera

The obscenity is not the loss
the obscenity is dawn
the absolute indifference
of a universe that yawns

The coffee percolating
the sparrow on the wire
the ordinary machinery
that refuses to expire

Aquí no avisa
aquí no espera
se sienta y mira
te apaga entera

When it comes for me
don't make it theological
just let the dirt receive me
in a manner biological

Where the roots conduct
their blind democracy
and the worms don't ask
for an aristocracy

Aquí no avisa
aquí no espera
te apaga entera
te apaga entera

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