No, you are not a
mistake. I know your mother told you
that having you at seventeen ruined her life; I know your father swore over
your cradle that he would never make the same mistake again. Let me tell you something, though.
Forsaken, starving, and
orphan children looking for something to eat in the garbage dumps; decrepit old
people stumbling amidst the rubble of their flattened homes, roaming over the
countless corpses strewn all over the place, searching for pieces of what their
lives used to be, something to cling to, to justify their existence and their
sanity, a picture of their family
perhaps, of their children blown to pieces by the 6,727,084 tons
of bombs dropped on their land; the multitude, of all ages, and genders, children,
the young and the old, with amputated limbs, and mutilated faces and bodies, wandering
around, with confusion on their faces, as if asking “why?”; the fields,
scorched, ravaged and barren,
planted with strange seeds that will keep killing the living for many
years to come; the burned villages; the raped women; the sacrifice of our young
and innocent boys, their transformation into killing machines, weapons of mass
destruction, to execute unmentionable atrocities and crimes against humanity, on
both sides of the line; the mutual extermination; the business of war: that is
an awful, fucking horrible mistake! An appalling perversion!
But you, you spread love, beauty, kindness, understanding, and inspiration everywhere you go. Every life you touch changes for the better. Everyone who crosses your path is left behind with a grateful smile. You represent everything that is decent, noble, uplifting, honourable, and positive, in the human race. People like you make life bearable and livable, giving us a reason to believe. No! A million times, no! You are not a mistake!
But you, you spread love, beauty, kindness, understanding, and inspiration everywhere you go. Every life you touch changes for the better. Everyone who crosses your path is left behind with a grateful smile. You represent everything that is decent, noble, uplifting, honourable, and positive, in the human race. People like you make life bearable and livable, giving us a reason to believe. No! A million times, no! You are not a mistake!
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© William Almonte Jiménez, 2011
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