The Cushion in the Road by Alice Walker

Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781595588869
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

OUR MARTYRS

When the people

have won a victory

whether small

or large

do you ever wonder

at that moment

where the martyrs

might be?

They who sacrificed

themselves

to bring to life

something unknown

though nonetheless more precious

than their blood.

I like to think of them

hovering over us

wherever we have gathered

to weep and to rejoice;

smiling and laughing,

actually slapping each other’s palms

in glee.

Their blood has dried

and become rose petals.

What you feel brushing your cheek

is not only your tears

but these.

Martyrs never regret

what they have done

having done it.

Amazing too

in memory

they never frown.

It is all so mysterious

the way they remain

above us

beside us

within us;

how they beam

a human sunrise

and are so proud.

May the example of Celia Sánchez’s extraordinary life strengthen and encourage us. She kept records of everything that others around her did during the revolution. In a way it is through this selfless wisdom, her caring about future rebels she saw coming to the place Cuba pioneered, that we most clearly see her.

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