Only the legends
That lived within the songs
Repeated mindlessly,
Effortlessly,
Everywhere
There was work
Or children
Telling of beginnings,
Of how things came to be,
And what it meant to be Maya.
And of Cenote
The Giver of Life
While we moved the great stones
As if in a dream
Mindlessly,
Effortlessly
And piled them on top
Of that great hole
--In your honor --
In the ground
while you danced
Silently behind us
Of those things you teach us --
We have long forgotten.
You have ceased to be
A part of us
Deciding instead to go below
While we stayed behind
And planted the maize
And sang the songs
You sang inside our heads
Mindlessly ,
Effortlessly,