THE ABSENCE OF OBLIVION
Por Mariana Michelsen*
The notion of fate
Lies drowned in endless night.
Disturbs the deserts of vast eternity
As the cost for immortality.
For nobody wants to die, ever
We shall grow old apace,
No person is whole.
No person is free.
As we say we used to be different persons
Wishing to go back in time,
Then while time serves,
and we are but decaying
Before we know our liberty
Some have determined
That the only way to live is to die.
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* Mariana Michelsen es estudiante recién graduada (2012) del colegio Los Nogales, en la ciudad de Bogotá.