MIGRATIONS by Dorian Merina

  "Water rocks the hull of the ship and the dark night comes on the waves". With this small phrase the Dorian Merina starts her own explanation of the effects of the colonization in the Americas. They come and take, they raped our women and created the various races of people that are presently part of the American community.

  In this poem, Merinda takes us back in history to show us the different consequences of this events that occurred hundreds of years ago. One of them is the extraction of goods and resources found on this continent.

"On the boats come the goods that cross the waters

    like veins and blood rushing

the goods cross the waters"

   I want to share my personal thoughts about the meaning of this boats. In this piece, the author takes us to the boats used by the Europeans, the ones that take those resources that are now called limited. For me it is ironic how the Europeans took our goods on their boats that crossed the water, just after they where robbed by an Asian country which they controlled afterwards. The horrible effects of revenge had already taken International levels since the old times and maybe that is why our world is not as it is supposed to be. It is here where I can relate it to the poem. The Europeans in that time, created a road of "blood rushing" when they took our goods away and that started a story of violence that never had an end. 

"like veins and goods the blood comes

crossing the waters"

 

Here our authors twists the facts and with it, it shows us another big effect of the European invasion. She changes the phrase so that the goods that cross the water can become a complementary way to show us what else crossed with it, that other thing was blood. Although allot of killings took place, our author is not talking about it. As historians tells us daily on the History Planet, when they arrived they not only took things but people, specially women. They combined and created the vast races that we have today with us. They combined and created the different versions of Europeans, natives and black ones that each time created a new floor between the Native social class and the Europeans. Since a long time ago, social classes killed our society made it more violent and made more and more insecure, because you where never sure where you stood on that pyramid.

All this effects have one common fact  between one and another. All this effects where the cause of violence not only in countries like Colombia, but also in Brazil and Venezuela. They took our goods and made us fight for what it was left, and they made us insecure with all their rules and religions. At the end blood spilling always win as key factor of the violence that still goes on in Latino America, which creates more victims every day, and make this world look worst than what it already is.

Gabriela