Wish of Life by Stalyn Germosen-Torres
Present: 2021 Fly as high as I can to feel my freedom, which for so many years was denied us. I lived for many years to see how the world and the surroundings changed. 1530: perpetual slavery. We had neither voice nor vote. We were trash. So many lashes taught me to survive the pain. Humiliations taught me not to be proud. Colors will not exist one day. They will not be discriminated against, I always told myself. I am only 15 years old and I lived around so many injustices, unpaid deaths, unjust sins. I told myself one day everything would change, one day. Why couldn’t we link up, you ask me? I don’t know, but someday it will change. Just to have a break, a lash, someday it will change. Just to have lighter skin, it will change someday, Just to raise my voice, it will change someday. Ignorance was its power, it will change someday. Violations without paying will one day change. Because endure nine months if in the end it is you who has the power to change. One day it will change, because not earning your own money. One day it will change, not having a voice in this country. One day it will change. Because I can’t have an education tool and you yes. One day it will change. Why not admire us for the pain of bringing them into the world? Because they did not listen when we left a word. Why not respect us? But one day it will change. 227
