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Open Your Eyes – A Poem from Peru

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Open Your Eyes – A Poem from Peru

Say no more oppression, no more bombs on innocent

By Ramina Herrera Arteaga

Ramina Herrera Arteaga, born in Luya, Amazonas, Peru in 1979, is a Business Administrator by profession. She graduated from the National University of Trujillo – UNT.

Ramina HerreraRamina received an honorable mention in the 2002 UNT Flower Tales. Her poetry “Memories of Unborn” was published online by the magazine “Voices” of Spain. In 2006 it was included in the anthology “Caminos de Poesía” (Editorial Fund of the Provincial Municipality of Cajamarca. ”In 2007 it published the Poemario“ Nocturna Soledad y otros Poemas ”(Katequil Editores). Currently finishing the layout of the second edition (digital) of “Nocturna Soledad y otros Poemas”, culminating in the poems “WRITINGS OF THE LUNA WOMAN” and “LUYA, PEDACITO DE CIELO”; also promoting a group OLEOS Y VERSOS -PERU that brings together poets and visual artists to join to a larger Latin American group called JUNTOS POR LAS LETRAS, headquartered in Argentina; participates in the Global Poet and Poetry group and is an active member of the board of directors and editorial board; She has been awarded many prestigious recognition for her writing.

OPEN YOUR EYES

Wake up the humanity

We don’t have much time left

If we continue like this,

Sowing the shadows

River of tears of children and mothers,

Oceans of blood flowing of dead brothers,

Do we forget that we are the same species?

What makes instead of exterminating us

Should we take care of ourselves?

Let’s open the eyes

There is only one God

And dwells among each of us,

We are his chosen land

We deserve ourselves as his children.

It doesn’t matter what in a name

Or as you invoke him, his son, as you are

He accepts you and will always hear your prayers

Wake up, the humanity… wake up…

Say no more oppression, no more bombs on innocent

Say no more deaths

In the name of a god

That is love and mercy

Wake up, brother … wake up.

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