American Poem by Ediney Santana

I am latin american, Ah! My eyes
Are in the blue dry green, Snow, cactus of Latin America. I'm from America,
America of sleepless nights,
and proclaimed and coward dictatorships, imperialism,
and empires crushed by Europe.
I am from America, flower of Lazio I sing Luiz Gonzaga,
I have Mercedes Sosa in my Black scars
I am from the America of Joan Baez,
and the sincere verses of José Martí.
I am from the america of Octavio Paz,
As American
as Eduardo Galeano. I'm Castro Alves, American Bob Dylan.
Milton Nascimento in the America of Sara Voughan.

America, America, America
Of the mountain ranges, deserts, pain Mississipi blues,
Robert Johnson
and Nelson Rufino in the boy king that I was once. America, America, America
I invisible, sing the America of Amiri Baraka, I sing the America
Far away of Margaret Atwood, America of Eulálio Miranda Motta Here I am,
in silence and poetry.