

First WomanFirst WomanFirst Woman
I am the first woman I am mother to all And to none My body has borne a hundred thousand children All of them torn from me by Death’s greedy arms My hands have toiled and laboured long – cracks and callouses borne with grim pride Nails never fine, never unbroken My eyes are all seeing – into the future and the past I watch all that has come and all that is to be Sorrow has lined my skin, hardened my mouth, set my face as stone But I am beauty still – I am eternal Disappointment and grief have shaped the lines of my body Working to bring life from
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Un libro es un espejo, sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro.
"La sombra del viento", Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A book is a mirror, we can only find on it what we already have inside us.
"The shadow of the wind", by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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"Sand cannot keep a shape by itself, but add water, and it becomes maluable. Fate can be such, if you add the right element."- King Damas
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