Migrant at Midnight by Ivan Guerrero Najera

Migrant At Midnight

Stick to the right of the current
And the morally passable errands
And the horribly plausible days
And the rights, and the wrongs, and the grays

Because here you're a migrant at midnight
And in hindsight an idiot

And I see that you fear to forget
That the truth is so ugly, a myriad
Of colors that make you regret

Deadly like dusk for a driver
Blinding because eyes believe
The specters of twilight
And mirages conceived

But never remember, memory lame
Forever feign paradise
And the dark of your eyes
Will absolve all the evil the same

A migrant at midnight
A child born of pan and of pain
Aim high as your father below
And low as the stars in the sky

And the world will remember your name

by Ivan Guerrero Najera

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