Between kisses and shootings...
Between hate and love ...
Between blood and art that tainted your hands ...
Among the tortures and hugs ...
The fate of the human being ...
Nature made you wise and good
but unbridled ambition was your downfall, your great poison
able to give life or humiliate in one stroke
able to love or be a mass murderer for sport
created palaces and pyramids in honor to your leaders
the theories of Euclid and Archimedes,
serial crimes like Rostock, Hitler, Pinochet and Pol Pot, paladins of the plot,
Inventor of writing and penicillin,
executor of cultures, Nagashaki and Hiroshima
Human kisses and murder hugs and berates
always...
if his wishes blind him, betrays and lies.
From Versalles flowers to prisons on Bangkok
voice of dictators or painters like VanGog
people love, tenderness balance is in your hands
disappointment or hope, all in your head.
The kisses that were given
the walls that distanced
ties that united
shots resounded
the blows wounded
inventions entranced
the lights and shadows that make you human
The geniuses who inspired, hugs that were given
wars that ravaged, blood they spilled
the heroes who shone, villains who tortured
the lights and shadows that make you human
Helped the helpless by pure goodness
and felt the tense touch of a rifle aiming to kill
paintedst oblivion in ghettos of Asia and Africa
while you sang full sonnets with magic phrases
eternal ruins like Petra or Chichen Itza
horrors in your wars so useless
hoist the sails of caravels to travel the world
where were you causing the deepest disasters
Human wants to be the master of his surroundings
building mines and imagining a better future
your hunting instinct brought evil and violence
your maternal instinct brought patience and clemency
From the walls of Auswitch to orphanages in Shanghai
the streets of Namibia to the Islands of Dubai
pain and beauty, the killing of your brothers
the compassion and revenge of the human beings.
you dreamt with steel and metal birds flying over oceans
and in the dark shadows of those basements
you gave such harsh torture and made wounds that won't heal
believed to be the owner of everything that lives
Verses of Neruda and Lorca that undresses the existence
between the hanging rope and censorship, your hatred and pestilence
climbing hills to improve yourself
intoxicating Mother Earth while looking for life on Mars
When I see you, I see art and death, your contradiction
Free by science, prisoner of your religion
Your passion captures life in films
your infinite ambitious anxiety makes you accelerate particles
From the domes in Rome to Favelas in Sao Paulo
from the ruins of Darfur to the mansions in Monte Carlo
between heroes and villains
the curse and the greatness of the human being.
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Translation from Spanish by @adrianakgb
Original song by Nach Scratch (Spanish rap/hip-hop singer)