Los Cinco Compañeros Para Paz
Five Comrades for Peace

Five of Cuba’s best
could not ignore
a need within themselves
to stop what we all abhor-
an omnipresent terrorist regime
dead set to do its worst and more.

Five heroes would not let their vision
of human decency be distorted,
by a cowardly, ugly, mindless machine,
and so they dug deep and retorted,
“these are the freely available published facts,
your acts of terrorism must be aborted”.

Five comrades defending their homeland,
from murderous assaults inflicting pain.
U.S. weapons and cash, official government
duplicity during self righteous reign;
supporting counter-Revolution terrorists,
living in Miami, out, for personal gain.

At issue, authorized complicity,
toleration of state terror,
giving federal trial officials,
rights to ignore constitutional errors.
An ironic involvement which to top
legal minds could not be clearer.

Cuba for decades has surely endured,
cannon fire, rockets, bazookas and bombs,
fired at buildings and ships in the harbour,
murdering civilians without any qualms.
Thousands of dead a hundred times over,
pigs, cattle poisoned, with great self-aplomb.

Five heroes in jail for patriotic duty await,
While Genocidal Bushes remain over-Zealous;
and a mastermind killer in ’73 deaths,
airplane bomber, Luis Possada Carrilles
lives comfortably well off in Miami;
but soon enough will find out what hell is.

Antonio and Ramon’s fire, it will not go out,
Gerardo and Fernando, Rene too will stand tall;
for protest by protest, rain, snow or shine,
too many now have heard their call.
Haste La Victoria, we stand by their side,
We’ll never give up, not-yet, not-at-all.

They will not be defeated
or left on their own,
the world they desired
will surely be known.
These five will not perish
in some lonely seclusion
for the life they desired,
will see a reunion.

Venceramos!

LanceRead
2008.09.13
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