You will beEl Mayor

By:María Delys Cruz Palenzuela

Count that December 23, 1841, in the wide next large house to the church of La Merced, the family trajín and servitude broke its habitual costums: Mrs. Filomena was of childbirth.

Diamond with kiss soul

WITH THE SHAME!

Poems

Say that, immediately that the birth of a male was announced, the main door opened up, as answer to a magic movement, to open the way to a warm breeze, accompanied by a trail of multicolored light. Big, very big, was the astonishment of those there present when, some after other, muses and gods, Greeks and Roman, adorned of their most beautiful robes, invaded the intimacy of the moment.

Upstairs, the mythological caravan arrived next to the channel where the mother wrapped up the boy in her breast; immediately, Zeus predicted: --Your son will be adored by the men and women of this earth, will be immortal--and playing with luminous hand his front deposited in her a star.

Then Minerva approached to impregnate it of intelligence and wisdom; Apollo granted him a special, only beauty; Eros gave him the capacity to love, with the most tender and passionate in the loves, to a single woman; Mars prepared it for the best in the warriors…

But there was a deity that didn't come from the Olympus, because it was earthly, although yes eternal, sad and oppressed, encouraged now by the coming of the one who then would give his life for it: it was called Homeland and, without saying a lot, said everything: --You will beEl Mayor.