Rise up to be born with me, brother. 
Give me your hand from the deep 
Zone seeded by your sorrow. 
You won?t return from under the rocks. 
You won?t return from your subterranean time. 
Your hardened voice won?t return. 
Your gouged-out eyes won?t return. 

Look at me from the depth of the earth, 
laborer, weaver, silent shepherd: 
tamer of wild llamas like spirit images: 
construction worker on a daring scaffold: 
waterer of the tears of the Andes: 
jeweler with broken fingers: 
farmer trembling as you sow: 
potter, poured out into your clay: 
bring to the cup of this new life 
your old buried sorrows. 
Show me your blood and your furrow, 
Tell me, ?Here I was punished, 
Because the jewel didn?t shine or the earth 
Didn?t yield grain or stones on time.? 
Show me the stone you fell over 
And the wood on which they crucified you, 
Make a spark from the old flints for me, 
For the old lamps to show the whips still stuck 
After centuries in the old wounds 
And the axes shining with blood. 
I come to speak for your dead mouth. 
Across the earth come together all 
The silent worn-out lips 
And from the depth speak to me all this long night 
Like I was pinned down there with you. 
Tell me all, chain by chain, 
Link by link and step by step, 
Sharpen the knives which you hid, 
Put them in my breast and in my hand, 
Like a river of yellow lighting 
Like a river of buried jaguars 
And let me weep, hours, days, years, 
For blind ages, cycles of stars. 

Give me silence, water, hope. 

Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. 

Stick bodies to me like magnets. 

Draw near to my veins and my mouth. 

Speak through my words and my blood.