Marissa Cueva
Mariposita
Mariposita,
Que llega a visitarme de vez en cuando,
Alguna vez te vi volar,
From the hands of my cousins,
All dressed in matching blue shirts,
With black suits.
I watched you,
Through tear-filled eyes,
Buried in the cloth of my grandma’s clothes,
As you flew right over the casket,
Before laying he who we love
To rest.
Mariposita,
Llévale este mensaje,
Que sobre todo,
Lo quiero,
Y lo extraño cada día.
Dile que mi corazón ha rompido,
Because the hands on this little ornate clock
Have stopped moving.
And the head that once wore
The cap on my desk
Is now six feet underground.
And the owner of the little blue book under my pillow,
Will never read it again.
The rough hands that once
Flipped through the soft yellow pages
Have grown cold.
Dile como quisiera que él estuviera aquí,
Para cantar con el,
Y bailar con el,
Y comer miles de bolillos,
En la cocina de mi Tita.
Como quisiera que él me hubiera visto,
Crecer,
Graduarme,
Enamorarme.
Tanto que hubiera reído,
Y tan orgulloso que estuviera,
Si me pudiera ver hoy.
Llévale este mensaje,
Mi mariposita.
Bio
In their words: “My name is Marissa Cueva, and I am an 18-year-old Chicana student at Loyola Marymount University. I am a second-year Screenwriting major and Chicano/Latino studies minor. I am pursuing a career in writing for the film industry and also have a prominent interest in writing poetry.”
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