Morazan Watch – Poem by Pablo Neruda
High is the night and Morazán keeps watch
The tiger approaches brandishing an axe.
They come to devour your entrails
They come to divide the star
They come to devour your entrails.
They come to divide the star
They come
sweet-scented little America,
to nail you to the cross, to flay you,
to bring down the metal of your flag.
High is the night and Morazán keeps watch.
Invaders filled your dwelling.
And they split you like dead fruit,
and others sealed upon your back
the teeth of a bloodthirsty lineage,
and others plundered you in the ports
carrying blood upon your sorrows
Is it today, yesterday, tomorrow? You know it.
Brothers, dawn is breaking. (And Morazán keeps watch)
This poem is found in the work «Canto General,» the tenth poetry collection by Pablo Neruda, first published in Mexico, at the Graphic Workshops of the Nation, in 1950, and which he began composing in 1938. «Morazán» is poem number XXXI of his renowned work «Canto General».
