Juan Daniel Acuña – Night Without a Homeland

Juan Daniel Acuña – Juan Daniel Acuña – Project Manager – Just Transition Observatory. IE University .

Reading:

Night Without a Homeland (Nocturno Sin Patria) by Jorge Debravo  (1938 – 1967).

I don’t want a knife at the hands of the motherland.
Neither a knife nor a rifle for anyone:
the land is for everyone,
like the air.
I’d like to have enormous hands,
violent and brutal,
to tear out boundaries one by one
and leave as a boundary just the air.
Let no one have land
as they have suits.
Let everyone have land
as they have air.
I would grab wars by their ends
and would not leave one in the landscape
and I would open the earth for everyone
as if it were air…
For air belongs to nobody, nobody, nobody,
and everyone owns their plot of air.

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Yo no quiero un cuchillo en manos de la patria.
Ni un cuchillo ni un rifle para nadie
la tierra es para todos
como el aire.
Me gustaría tener manos enormes,
violentas y salvajes,
para arrancar fronteras una a una
y dejar de frontera solo el aire.
Que nadie tenga tierra
como tiene traje:
que todos tengan tierra
como tienen el aire.
Cogería las guerras de la punta
y no dejaría una en el paisaje
y abriría la tierra para todos
como si fuera el aire…
Que el aire no es de nadie, nadie, nadie…
Y todos tienen su parcela de aire.