Pecos Community Center

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http://youtu.be/uESfhNUMkSA

This mural painted in the summer of 2011 depicts a collective poem written by students of Escuela Tlatelolco and La Raza Youth Leadership Council.  The poem was set to music with the collaboration of the Youth On Record team and illustrated along the 3500 block of Pecos in Denver, CO adjacent to the Pecos Community Center. Click the above link to hear the final recorded piece wherein students read their original spoken word compositions.

I come from a
Heavy dark sky blue
Sirens gunshots and dogs barking
Skate Parks
Desolate buildings higher than the sky cars whooshing by voices
bouncing off walls….. Denver growing day by day beneath a bright full
moon
From people who dream of peace
I come from:
Painted faces and sundried hats
I come from:
Hatchets and shovels in blistered hands
I come from:
Low wages and extra hours
I come from:
Saddened and rejected workers:
From people who dream of a better life
I come from:
Airports that look like a lot of tents put together full of windows and light
Silver barbed wire whose touch equals pain
Stars, Christmas Lights, darkening sky with decorations everywhere
Green Yellow Red and Orange chilis
My family in New Mexico
From people who dream of being closer

I come from:
Waterfalls that feel like cold crystals crashing into your hands
An island of boats and trees water and sun
Trees moist dark brown full of green leaves brushing against each other
I come from:
Women who ride their lives down the road less traveled… realizing the
beauty through all the bumps and cracks:
the millions of feet that have walked through this neighborhood.
Aztecs, Inca, Maya: Inventors Scientists Architects and Artists
From people who dream of seeing new things
I come from
The Apache
African Great Grandfathers
Geronimo,
Medicine Men
The Maya Smokey Aztec rituals in the plaza of Mexico City
From ancient pyramids
Machu Pichu
And Hundreds of people ready for battle
I come from:
Dawn and the smell of night
Soft colors purple and pink: the great peace that the sky brings everyday
Watching time pass by a river that looks like ribbons floating cambia
de color depende por donde mires… claro… oscuro.. blanco..
Graffiti del color negro and diamond shaped fences I come from a
broken blue door
From people who dream of opportunity
I come from…………
Maiz de diferentes tipos de colores de muchos lugares
El Salvador, Peru, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela, California
Hopes and dreams for change
Gente fiestando el triunfo de un partido de futbol: espuma confetti
Family who fought alongside Pancho Villa
The Alamo and
A broken blue door
From people who dream for their children

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