At your chest Martí, I knock among tears/in this hour of ma… - Julia de Burgos

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At your chest Martí, I knock among tears/in this hour of man and of war,/so you may arrive, at peace, awake,/over the greatest pain of America.

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Julia de Burgos (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) was a Puerto Rican poet.

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The storm passed faithful over my tired soul/when you appeared with the tenderness of a star.

To save something beautiful you must destroy it, so it does not fall, limp and degraded, from our miserable human hands.

I have felt myself arrive where/happy songs die

At your chest Martí, I knock among tears/in this hour of man and of war,/so you may arrive, at peace, awake,/over the greatest pain of America. - Julia de Burgos

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