DREAMS OF ESCAPE

Restless.

Desperate.

Something inside my mind is turning me into

a wanderer, bitter and distant.

It seems so natural now

to think of myself as homeless.

What comfort is there in the dull articles

I sell to newspapers, trying to earn money

to help the woman I thought of as a mother

for so many years, when all along, Bernarda knew

that my true Mamá

was alive and had no wish

to know me, while the father

I despise

was even

worse.