MARÍA DEL PILAR

Every time I manage to find poor Juan

    working and working

    out in the fields

    he tells me

    how La Marquesa always promises

    to kill him

So I answer

    with one small truth

    and while I’m speaking

    I can feel the small truth growing

    bigger and bigger

    inside my mouth

    God is good

    and good is always more powerful

    than evil

    I don’t know why the devil

    even bothers

    to fight