n evocative protest poem, by Glória, against guns and violence, exclusively for Different Truths

Pull the trigger
In the shadows
From past
In the tears kept
Of joys not lived
In forgotten kisses
 
Pull the trigger
In the darkness of the songs
The hidden steps
Please pull the trigger
Shoot those old dreams
Let blood gush on white
Let the illusion swallow the flakes
 
Shoot at once
In the soul of the sad poet
Shoot Shoot and Shoot
Keep walking
 
Pull the trigger
In the words
In angry letters
In the melancholy
In the screams of the chest
 
Pull the trigger
Shoot the single
Leftover star
Leave it all in silence
Your nervous laugh.
 
Pull the trigger
Before the handful of time
Write the clouds into oblivion
 
Pull the trigger
In the rules
In the grammars
In dreams
Without carving
the memory
Pull the trigger
This sound of ships
Hanging
At the head of the river
 
That refuses to leave
Into the sea of the future
 
Squeeze the trigger at once
And it will only be necessary
Once
So that the pretty blonde
Land the phrases
In the palm of your hands
 
And the promises will open
In the sentences, in the eyes
pregnant with tears
Just pull the trigger
In me, since there
We can be us.
Pull the trigger
At the last drop of faith
That springs from my being.

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Glória Sofia Varela Monteiro

Glória Sofia V. Monteiro, born in the city of Praia in Cape Verde, shares her dreams with her two children. She graduated in Engineering and Environmental Management in the Azores, another place that she cherishes to be an islander. Her poems capture moments of her journey and are full of passion and the emotions of the author herself. She has been invited to three Universities from Boston (April 2019). Harvard University, Tufts University and Boston University

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