Sunday, February 07, 2010

Portbou

A small unassuming place to make an exit.

A cuckoo’s nest of histories.

A tunnel into the sky.

The dead of Europe, who can count them?

To each a reason, a fate.

At the border, lots are drawn,

Destinies negotiated.

So many secrets in unmarked graves.

The shell game never ends.

The living have one duty:

To lay stones on the graves of the dead.

Who now holds the anxious fortress?

Besiegers and besieged

All post their prayers to the same sky.

There is no-one on this earth without a name.

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