What I saw

In my life and in my work

As a civil engineer

I traveled a long way

That I got tired until ...

For all that I saw

There was not one good one among a thousand.

And in all that walking

I was very surprised

Because of the poverty that I saw.

I saw a little donkey walk

Loaded with ten "drums"

Coming down from the mountain

Followed by a child

Bare feet full of dust

Who I looked at with affection

And sadly at the same time.

And arrive with his burrito

Even a puddle of water

To fill those cans

With not very healthy water

With trash and smelly algae

To then go back up

About two miles I calculate

Until you get to your poor plots

Because the best lands

They are in the hands of other lords,

That they do not take off their gloves

Not even to sleep.

Of the poverty that I saw

With much astonishment I was left

And I also wondered

Grandpa where is God?

At the same time that I answered myself

God around here and it didn't happen.

All of this reminds me

The "Cantata of Santa María"

Oh Lord who would say it.

That no more is my experience

Of my step in this world

Of the much or little science

I saw in deep amazement

That everything was very bad

That it was good to regret

And become a Christian

Receiving our Lord

As our savior.

And so holding your hand

Let's love our brother

To give faithful fulfillment

What the commandment says:

You will love God above all things

Then you will love your neighbor as yourself.