PABLO NERUDA'S JUSTICE

Pablo Neruda's voice of justice
rises as tall greensward grass
in Santiago
with moving and embracing love
you pass by the trees
now with the rubbed out initials
and names of the Resistance
after writing a correspondence
of poems, letters, essays
in your voting out
the reactionary choice
of politicians
with your contrary cry
for the miners
and workers rights
from the strikes of a poet
splitting the nails
of the crucified
with the spikes
of an invention's interference
in free speech
wanting a a space on earth
for the poor
with a hopeful tomorrow
for those who are ignored
inscribed on your lips
from revolutionary words
not to be silent slaves
of any feared system
even called Christian
when words flame
into an apocalypse
which borrows from
indifference
when state fascism
carries us through
the nights
of the disappeared.