Joseph Berolo (Colombia) translates COVID-19 into Spanish

 http://www.aveviajera.org/85aosdeshojandocalendarios/id1023.html

La tercera fase de la pandemia ya comenzó con el cierre total en la India.

El primer ministro lo llama toque de queda público.

Todos pasamos días ansiosamente.

Mi alergia bronquial, tos y secreción nasal / nariz tapada, me asusta.

Sigo tomando los medicamentos recetados por el médico hace años

junto con algunos remedios caseros.

La permanencia forzada en casa debería protegernos a todos.

Mantenemos nuestros dedos cruzados.

¿Puedo compartir con ustedes un poema que compuse hoy? Aquí está.

COVID-19

Corona virus.

Punitivo,

leproso 

algunos dicen

es una invasión. 

Cuarentena

limpieza del pecho

tapabocas

respirando viruses desconocidos

sufriendo nuevas represiones

 encierro castración,

monasticismo

resistiendo la muerte.

--Ram Krishna Singh

Tr. Joseph Berolo

The third phase of the pandemic has already started with total shut down in India.

The Prime Minister calls it Public Curfew.

We are all anxiously passing days.

My bronchial allergy, cough and runny/stuffed nose at night, frightens me.

I keep taking the medicines doctor prescribed years ago along with some home remedies.

The forced stay at home should protect us all. We keep our fingers crossed.

May I share with you a poem I composed today. Here it is.

COVID-19

Punitive

corona virus--

lépreuse

some say it's invasion

the barbarian without

quarantined

I clear my throat

behind the face mask

breathe in unknown viruses

suffer new repressions

now lockdown

cut off life:

castration

Hugo said monasticism

resisting death

--Ram Krishna Singh
 

From: an email by Joseph Berolo dated 29 March 2020, 22:15


The poem also appears on 'Across the Social Distances' on 10 April 2020. Here is the link:

https://acrossthesocialdistances.tumblr.com/post/614955485376937984/2-by-rksingh