ÀNGEL | Barcelona, 6th December 2024
L’Estaca
The old Siset spoke to me in the doorway at dawn while we waited for the sun and watched the carts pass by.
Siset, don't you see l’estaca that we are all tied to? If we can’t take it down, we will never be able to walk!
If we all pull, it will fall down, and it cannot last long, it will surely fall, fall, fall, it must be worm-eaten by now.
If I pull hard this way and you pull hard that way, it will surely fall, fall, fall, and we will be able to liberate ourselves.
But, Siset, it's been a long time, now! My hands are peeling! And when my strength leaves me, it's wider and bigger.
I know very well that it is rotten, but it is just, Siset, that it weighs so much that sometimes my strength fades.Tell me your song again!
If we all pull, it will fall down, and it cannot last long it will surely fall, fall, fall, it must be worm-eaten by now.
If I pull hard this way and you pull hard that way, it will surely fall, fall, fall, and we will be able to liberate ourselves.
The old Siset doesn’t say anything anymore, bad wind took him away, he, who knows towards where, and I under the doorway.
And while the new boys pass by, I stretch my neck to sing the last song of Siset, the last he taught me.
If we all pull, it will fall down, and it cannot last long it will surely fall, fall, fall, it must be worm-eaten by now.
If I pull hard this way and you pull hard that way, it will surely fall, fall, fall, and we will be able to liberate ourselves.
- Read l’Estaca figuratively otherwise you won’t get the nitty-gritty.
a) Estaca (stake) means, lack of freedom. b) Avi (grandpa) means, old. c) Siset, a familiar mame for Narcís.