Taino by Jose Barreiro

Author:Jose Barreiro
Language: ara
Format: epub
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2016-06-27T06:00:00+00:00

January 6, 1533

One hundred eight. My loss of innocence.

It has been three weeks and I pick up this pen. This pen I hold that opens forth so much hurt, arousing memories of a more innocent time, of my own elders and what happened to them. I sit to write and the mere act provides picture after picture, as in those painted cuadros that I saw at the Cathedral of Seville, Christ being flogged, Christ being stabbed, Christ bleeding in the agony of crucifixion. I remember real crucifixions; I remember beheadings upon beheadings; I remember wanton injuries to child and mother, wanton, wanton, the boot of the soldier applied to the neck, the torch of the Inquisition to the pyre of Taíno. But of all that my mind can hold, I most dread the memory of my own innocence, my Taíno goodwill upon which I have gathered so much hatred.

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