The Dark Forest, by Emma Riverola

“That war is not indifferent to me & rdquor ;, sang Mercedes Sosa. No, that the pain of others is not strange to us. May the despair of those seeking a place in the world not run into a desert of skepticism. That we are not impassive to the wounds opened by the blades of the border. That we do not look without tears at the crying distressed child caused by tear gas. Let us not believe that an icy forest, a cemetery of dreams, is the place that no one deserves. Let a chill run through us before the clothes soaked by the water cannons.

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No, we never think that these skins do not suffer the same pain than ours. That their dreams do not commune with ours. That their feelings are made of hardware. That their children are fewer children, their elders more expendable, their pregnancies less important. That we do not measure their fears, their loves and its solitudes with rules without numbers, with balances without counterweights. No, that injustice is not indifferent to us. Because that day, that moment, we will be the ones who will be lost in the dark forest of dehumanization. There, where the skin no longer feels, the eyes do not know how to look and the heart is covered with frost.

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