Between kisses and shootings...

Between hate and love ...

Between blood and art that tainted your hands ...

Among the tortures and hugs ...

The fate of the human being ...

Nature made you wise and good

but unbridled ambition was your downfall, your great poison

able to give life or humiliate in one stroke

able to love or be a mass murderer for sport

created palaces and pyramids in honor to your leaders

the theories of Euclid and Archimedes,

serial crimes like Rostock, Hitler, Pinochet and Pol Pot, paladins of the plot,

Inventor of writing and penicillin,

executor of cultures, Nagashaki and Hiroshima

Human kisses and murder hugs and berates

always...

if his wishes blind him, betrays and lies.

From Versalles flowers to prisons on Bangkok

voice of dictators or painters like VanGog

people love, tenderness balance is in your hands

disappointment or hope, all in your head.

The kisses that were given

the walls that distanced

ties that united

shots resounded

the blows wounded

inventions entranced

the lights and shadows that make you human

The geniuses who inspired, hugs that were given

wars that ravaged, blood they spilled

the heroes who shone, villains who tortured

the lights and shadows that make you human

Helped the helpless by pure goodness

and felt the tense touch of a rifle aiming to kill

paintedst oblivion in ghettos of Asia and Africa

while you sang full sonnets with magic phrases

eternal ruins like Petra or Chichen Itza

horrors in your wars so useless

hoist the sails of caravels to travel the world

where were you causing the deepest disasters

Human wants to be the master of his surroundings

building mines and imagining a better future

your hunting instinct brought evil and violence

your maternal instinct brought patience and clemency

From the walls of Auswitch to orphanages in Shanghai

the streets of Namibia to the Islands of Dubai

pain and beauty, the killing of your brothers

the compassion and revenge of the human beings.

you dreamt with steel and metal birds flying over oceans

and in the dark shadows of those basements

you gave such harsh torture and made wounds that won't heal

believed to be the owner of everything that lives

Verses of Neruda and Lorca that undresses the existence

between the hanging rope and censorship, your hatred and pestilence

climbing hills to improve yourself

intoxicating Mother Earth while looking for life on Mars

When I see you, I see art and death, your contradiction

Free by science, prisoner of your religion

Your passion captures life in films

your infinite ambitious anxiety makes you accelerate particles

From the domes in Rome to Favelas in Sao Paulo

from the ruins of Darfur to the mansions in Monte Carlo

between heroes and villains

the curse and the greatness of the human being.

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Translation from Spanish by @adrianakgb

Original song by Nach Scratch (Spanish rap/hip-hop singer)