If it were your child

If it were your child
you would fill the sea
with ships of any flag.

You would want them all together, in millions
making the bridge to let your children pass through
Very attentive, you would never leave your children alone.

You would cast shadow
so their eyes do not get burnt,
you would cover them
so that they do not get wet
or splashed by salt water.

If it were your child,
you would dive into the sea
you would kill the fishers who do not lend their boats,
You would scream for help
at the doors of the governments which shut themselves
to defend life.

If it were your child, you would call them
inhuman villains, because they are.
You should be detained, hold prisoner, blocked,
you would like to smash their faces in,
drown them in water.

But do not worry in your warm place.
It is not your child. It is not your child.
You may sleep peacefully
and above all calm.

It is not your child
It is just a child of the lost Humanity
of the dirty Humanity which does not even make a sound.

It is not your child. It is not your child..
Sleep peacefully, of course.
It is not yours.

Sergio Guttila

Translated from Spanish by Andrea González Tamayo