Bienvenido a esta casa
su casa,
aquí se respira el frío hiel
de ese aliento ausente.
Bienvenido a esta casa
de enojos y lágrimas,
bien pueda siéntese
donde sus pasos se agoten
donde su piel se seque.
la casa ha cambiado un poco
—usted perdone—
pero he evitado pintarla
para que las grietas del tiempo
le regalen un poco de ese matiz familiar.
Es la misma casa, no se asuste
esa misma, que construimos hace tiempo
esperando estar lo suficientemente solos
para habitar en ella.
Jenny Bernal (Bogotá, Colombia, 1987) has worked in reading promotion and cultural management. She is a Master's student in Literary Studies at the National University and co-founder of the "Ojo en la Tinta" Festival. Currently, she is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Contestarte and the Latin American poetry magazine La Raíz Invertida. She published in Raíces del viento, a compilation of five young Colombian poets, and also worked on the selection and prologue of Postal del oleaje, an edition of poets born in the 1980s in Colombia and Mexico.
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