You like to give and watch me my
pleasure. Machete me in two.
Take for the taking what is yours.
This is how you like to have me.
I’m as naked as a field of cane,
as alone as all of Cuba
before you.
You could descend like rain,
destroy like fire
if you chose to.
If you chose to.
I could rise like huracán.
I could erupt as sudden as
a coup d’état of trumpets,
the sleepless eye of ocean,
If I chose to.
I don’t choose to.
I let myself be taken.
This power is my gift to you.