And yes!
I make a circle
Kinda like a snake
Gonna shed my skin
On an island in a lake
My words are flying like an eagle
An eagle over ground
When I start spinnin
I see you're grinnin
I know you dig the sound
So I'm returning
Returning like the spring
I got old blood here
And that's what makes me sing
The circle is my story
It always makes me smile
Ghosts of my past surround me
All within a mile
So I start a writin
Trying to see the line
The circle that I'm found in
Stepin out of time
The eagle and the snake
Led my people to a lake
They searched for years and years
You know they had the faith
They built a city there
Tenochtitlan
It became the center
The center of Aztlān
A beautiful metropolis
Throughout the centuries
When Cortés saw it
His eyes began to bleed
Still one of the greatest
Cities in all the land
Mexico DF
I'm under your command
A portal
La Luna
The navel of the moon
I have you
Inside me
I hope to see you soon
Things recur; happen in cycles, like a circle. It seems like one of the laws of nature. After being in Utah a couple years, I think about how the seasons here seem to run in a cycle of recurrence. You see recurrence with the cycle of night and day and with the cycles of life and death. They all make these circles and the circles are always moving. I see movement as change, and change seems to be another law of nature. When we're caught up in all the movement it's hard to get outside the cycles to see the circles.
At first, I didn't see any circles when my Spanish class (I'm a Teacher's Assistant) took a field trip to Antelope Island. It's an island, in the middle of The Great Salt Lake, about an hour from my high school. My Spanish teacher took our class to hear this Chicano professor from Texas talk about a theory that he's come up with as to where the Aztecs came from.
Hmmm? I think my teacher booked this trip because the speaker was going to do his presentation in Spanish and English. My teacher was cool because he was always trying to put students in real situations where people where using Spanish. He'd always say,
"I'm trying to get you out of the textbook and into authentic Spanish."
As far as the theories of this professor from Texas, it helps to have a little background info to understand his theories. So we have to go back to the eagle and the snake. If you look at the Mexican flag or any Mexican coin, you'll see a representation of an eagle with a snake in its mouth on a cactus. Why?
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MC Quixote
General FictionThis story is about a fifteen year old moving from Mexico to the United States with her deaf father. She experiences many challenges and turns to writing songs and creating music to overcome the difficulties of moving to a new culture while growing...
