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Alligator pear
Alligator pear
They have taken over
They brought the guns the narcos the fear the pain
I wake up to gunshots everyday
I'm used to them now. If you listen closely you can hear the different pitches when each gun goes off. if you think hard enough the noises become music and the music becomes safety
So I dance, dancing with the trees that hold the rich avocados I danced through my town I call home.
Home this not my home anymore
Households full of guns
People piled up wilting away
Protection that's what they promised me
They lied
Sweet lautaro I hope one day I can return
when the sun is high and my avocados are green and ripe
when the loud sounds are not screams of terror but are from children playing in the yard
But till then, I must flee
Hiding in a truck underneath blankets I risk my life with my family hand in hand
We arrived at the place where they call the land of the free
But I am not free
The fear of the gun shots hunt me hunt me through day and night
It holds me tight suffocating until i'm paralyzed
Living in the shelter with foreign people beside
A man named bento
A light in a continuous free fall in darkness.
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