Translations
Cleanse
by Myr OlivaresI erase the last letters in my name
but still don’t tell my mother
I don’t want her to think
she makes me ashamed.
I don’t know how to say that her name,
which is mine,
is a horizon that fades
making way for another, now broader,
where one can see beyond
black and white.
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