Pride Month (#2): Lorca's Last Lover

June is LGBTQ+ pride month, and under the title Pride Month I post some poems or songlyrics which are related to LGBTQ+ issues. This one is a song lyric or poem about the death of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca who was murdered during the early weeks of the Spanish civil war not only because of his criticism of the fascist government but also because of his homosexuality. Around that time he wanted to migrate to Mexico City with his new lover (whom he called the love of his life).

Lorca's Last Lover

The retained sonnets of the dark love

Prove the prisons morality creates

So we hear their blood resonating

In the violins playing gypsy ballads

During that night of the soul forever dark

Lorca’s cry caught the crown of the shades

In the narrow space of the prison of love

Look at the camellia, look at his soul inside of yours

They were the hidden treasure of their sorrow

The hemlock tress of their bitter knowledge

Desperate they hit the secret chord of their queer love

United their love was destroyed

Relish the fresh landscape of their wounds

Granada’s wailing sky is your only witness

In a wild dance of a hot voice of ice

Washed away roughly by the river of fate

On his bed of the wounded he was laid

In the ruins of his sunken heart

Surrounded by the ancient weeping moon

Now he turned into a poem of his own