Kronen's stories...

It has passed a lot from the last time. However, I am with you, my classmates… and I would like to share the first poem I read in English. It is not mine, of course, I will publish mine when it had finished. Meanwhile, I give you a little present. This was from a film I watched when I was seventeen. I loved this film at the moment I watched, but the book is always more interesting than the scene. The title is “Historias del Kronen”, a Spanish film from the 90’s where you can discover the dark side of the life. Drugs, doubts... and the wild side of life. The poem is not appeared in the film, but it does in the book. It is a song from a group named The The, from his album ‘Soul Mining’. I hope you enjoy as much as I did, and I do.

'Giant'

‘The sun is high and I'm surrounded by sand
For as far as my eyes can see
I'm strapped into a rocking chair
With a blanket all over my knees

I, I am a stranger to myself
And nobody knows I'm here
When I looked into my face it wasn't myself I'd seen
But who I've tried to be

I'm thinking of things I'd hoped to forget
I'm choking to death in a sun that never sets
I clogged up my mind with perpetual greed
And turned all of my friends into enemies
And now the past has returned to haunt me

I'm scared of God and scared of hell
And I'm caving in upon myself
I'm scared of God and scared of hell
And I'm caving in upon myself

How can anyone know me when I don't even know myself?’

The last sentence is the one that has walked with me during my whole life...