How Much Pain We Can Endure?

How much pain we can endure?

ÂżCuĂĄnto dolor podemos abrazar?

How much pain we can endure?

Juan Pajaro Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 2019

Free culture license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License e-mail: juanrapave@gmail.com Facebook: elojodepajaro Instagram: @elojodepajaro This photo essay was made using Free Software:

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A group of women, victims of the long civil war in Colombia, performed a protest asking to the goverment to stop the killing of social leaders in the country

No I can no longer walk on this path, just seeing their expressions moved me, maybe they don't understand it and see my distance as antipathy, but it's not like that, I feel everything they do, my voice breaks along with theirs my tears in mirror mimic theirs emotions, I hate being this, the walking contradiction of a sea sponge and a turtle, I want my skin to be thicker and let that feeling pass, the one that only the oppressed can feel, I hate this system for creating us, for placing ourselves in the place of another, for forcing us to arm ourselves day after day, after stories of pain in search of emancipation.

And the bodies should be outside the Power, of the narration written in these, bodies should remember what they are, Do not look back, discover that we are the extension of a great whole and look beyond hate, See that we are all humanity.

Text & Photos by Juan Pajaro