Ginamaría, Women, Poet
GINAMARIA, WOMAN, POET
“GINAMARIA LA MAXIMA”
GINAMARIA, WOMAN, POET.
DREAMER, IDEALIST?
ROMANTIC, SEDUCTRESS
ANXIOUS VOICE.
GINAMARIA, BOLD
INTERPRETER OF HOPES.
SINGER OF DOCILE SONGS
BORN FROM BRAVE PEOPLES.
IN THE LANDS OF ARGENTINA
YOU MADE WAR ON SILENCE
RIDING OVER THE WIND
WITH BULLETS OF THOUGHTS
IN THE RIFLE OF YOUR VOICE.
DEATH QUIETLY WATCHED
WHO WOULD SING FOR LIFE.
AND ONE DAY, ENFURIATED
TO SILENCE THE SCREAM
OF YOUR TRAVELLING SONG,
IT WAITED FOR YOU IN THAT PATH
AMONG THE ASPHALT, HIDING.
... AND LIKE THIS YOU PARTED, SINGING
IN SEARCH OF THE INFINITE
... AND IN YOUR THROAT REMAINED
YOUR BEST SONG
THE ONE THAT BARELY GERMINATED,
THE ONE THAT YOU HAD NOT YET SUNG.
YOU LEFT, GINAMARIA FRIEND
ON THE SAME ROADWAY
THAT IN ITS TIME WILL FOLLOW
SOMEONE ELSE WHO YOU HAVE SUNG TO
WITH YOUR SERENE AND CLEAR VOICE.
AND WITH YOUR STAIN YOU LEFT
TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORY THE LAMENT
OF AN EMPTYNESS THAT FILLS US
AND THAT NO OTHER SINGER WILL FILL.
WHERE YOU NOT LA MAXIMA?
WHERE YOU NOT THE BEST VOICE
OF SOUTH AMERICA?
Peace in your Soul
Diego Pinilla
Manizales, Colombia
February 10, 2005