Episodio V de Poesía sin Fronteras II: La Paz | CGTN

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:33][music] >> It's memories that wake you up at night in cold sweats.

[00:00:38]It's memories.

[00:00:41]>> [music] >> It displaced many people. Families lost their loved ones. Some of the families [music] were entirely wiped out. Some villages were entirely wiped out in this clash.

[00:01:01]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> It automatically reminds me of home. I was born and raised in Kathmandu.

[00:02:30]When [music] I was growing up, Kathmandu was small, mysterious, very mystique, and it had a beautiful feeling.

[00:02:41]Autumn, because of the colors of the leaves, the sky is generally blue. As a child, we would take the bus, and I would always want to sit uh at the window seat.

[00:02:53]>> [music] >> So, I could look out at the towering mountains, [music] the countless waterfalls, the river that went through, and I used to think, someday, I want to climb and see what's [music] beneath and underneath and beyond it.

[00:03:17]But, uh many things has happened in the country since I was growing up, and we had internal conflict.

[00:03:33]For a very long time, it displaced many people.

[00:03:37]Families [music] lost um their loved ones. Some of the families were entirely wiped out. Some villages were entirely wiped out in this clash.

[00:03:55]>> comes at a tremendous cost for the families, for the community, and even for the country. Generational impact on family members.

[00:04:04]>> [music] >> Women and men and people affected by war and conflict are generally vulnerable.

[00:04:16]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> I still have 24 hours I had to leave the game.

[00:05:47]>> Yeah.

[00:05:48]I'm a rough guy.

[00:05:50]My little mustache with Turkey.

[00:05:53]>> [music] >> Those two Allah have a hammer and we have fun.

[00:05:59]What's that going to happen now? So what?

[00:06:03]And I have to look at the camera.

[00:06:05]Don't know about her.

[00:06:08]What about her to tell her what that guy and I still have been to hell below her below her below her.

[00:06:17]I don't know what to do.

[00:06:20]What plan now?

[00:06:24]Mom like a blue car fiber blast. This is a secret job at my home station rocking.

[00:06:32]So I feel it's way.

[00:06:33]So we have [music] something that Turkey.

[00:06:36]What the hell were you doing?

[00:06:39]The teacher had a different situation so I hate you and I'm [music] watching.

[00:06:49]Yeah, but we need to know you.

[00:06:51]I can't leave what do you miss >> [music] >> Yeah, how long I'm going to go to school stuff.

[00:06:59]Go for alien to see school. [music] What was that alien and what are you doing to us?

[00:07:07]Yeah, I mean what had What are you saying? I'm going to move to I'm going to move to your mama.

[00:07:17]Yeah, I mean What are you doing with that mama to do you home?

[00:07:26]>> [music] >> When I mom better Yeah, I mean Mom better than her [music] What the hell are you doing to her?

[00:07:45]I don't know what they don't want.

[00:07:50]>> [music] [singing] [music] [music] [music] >> What do you mean by my head?

[00:08:41]>> [music] >> We have to learn. What do you want from the sea?

[00:08:46]Should they uh >> [music] >> I don't know what they don't want from my company.

[00:08:51]>> [music] >> This is where I can learn how to act.

[00:09:13]I don't care if [music] Holly and Brad were fighting the children.

[00:09:18]You know, it's my massage >> [music] >> and salad for the poor.

[00:09:22]You need to get your lady my home in the morning.

[00:09:26]What can they learn?

[00:09:28]Uh you need a small fair map to assume my way.

[00:09:35]>> [music] >> I don't know where you want me to take her.

[00:09:39]>> [music] >> And the fire is going to be ruined me now.

[00:09:43]I just had a lot of fun here. It's my show. Wow.

[00:09:47]>> [music] >> It's my item. It's my mom.

[00:09:51]It's my item. It's my item.

[00:09:54]Can she be without [music] a lot of the phone? It's my mom.

[00:09:59]I know. I just want to >> [music] >> I'm going to eat some salad.

[00:10:07]It's my mom. It's your job.

[00:10:09]My hobby with salad with killer item.

[00:10:14]What's sorry? [music] I was so sorry.

[00:10:17]Let's forget you don't be here by the door.

[00:10:22]I don't have the weather.

[00:10:24]And he can have a fee. I am sorry.

[00:10:28]I'm going to show you my show menu.

[00:10:30]>> [music] >> What do you want to show me?

[00:10:32]Is that he a man or something?

[00:10:56]I don't know >> [music] >> how do you say that?

[00:10:59]Lucky with the salad in my hand.

[00:11:03]Do you have to see a salad?

[00:11:04]>> [music] >> Let them talk with you.

[00:11:09]And love for a shot and my eater.

[00:11:12]>> [music] >> I have to hang out the house and the chance.

[00:11:18]Love >> [music] >> for the day room and tell me something and more.

[00:11:26]>> [music] >> You should go to the mall.

[00:11:31]I'm going to go to the mall.

[00:11:33]I have to hang out your door at the >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> There is no winner in war. It's the consequence of the war that has on people and loss of [music] life and the deterioration of quality of life.

[00:12:50]But it also has deeper consequences.

[00:12:55]Sometimes we forget about that. There is so much mental health issue that people encounter. [music] That has to do with lack of peace.

[00:13:04]Um so peace is absolutely important.

[00:13:11]Okay. Okay. Okay.

[00:13:16]The most poetic thing about being an educator is when the students will [music] come and give me a hug.

[00:13:28]It will it saved [music] me.

[00:13:32]My own sons saved my life more than they will ever know.

[00:13:35]>> [music] [music] >> Every day is a new day. Every day every sunrise you look at it like it's your last sunrise.

[00:13:46]>> [music] >> Because you just don't know when it will be your last one [music] and I I understand that. You know, I've I've I've lost a lot of people suddenly so life is a gift.

[00:14:04]>> [music] [music] >> For over 20 years, I don't think I've slept more than 4 hours.

[00:15:11]It is memories that wake you up at night in cold sweats.

[00:15:17]It's memories. [music] And if there are people who want to start a war, then these are people who never saw a war.

[00:15:30]>> [music] >> You know, good >> [music] >> two, three, four hours every night.

[00:15:39]It was tearing me apart. Oh, I was so tired and and I was going crazy and and then and I saw myself going down a path that would take me away from my sons. So, I said, "Okay."

[00:15:59]There were times in my life where I was in a dark place and uh I didn't know if I was going to see the sun again.

[00:16:09]I [music] thought maybe this is going to be my last day on Earth.

[00:16:19]During the darkest moment of my life, I I saw a teacher do something amazing in the classroom in the middle of a battle.

[00:16:32]The teacher's giving a math class and uh when the battle [music] starts, an old Afghan teacher stands up.

[00:16:39]And it's a classroom with no windows, half a roof, and bullet [music] holes everywhere.

[00:16:45]And three meters out the window, people are shooting.

[00:16:50]And this teacher, when the battle starts in this middle of the classroom, stands up calmly, claps his hands twice.

[00:16:57]All students stood up, took their desks, put it on the side, and they get down on their little bellies, kids from 5 to 12, and they continued the lesson.

[00:17:10]They are There's screaming outside and it's a life and these kids are in the lesson.

[00:17:18]And the teacher had their attention.

[00:17:21]And the whole world did not exist.

[00:17:24]>> [music] >> From that situation, >> [music] >> I came to an understanding that what I want to be.

[00:17:36]I want to be a teacher.

[00:17:48]I realized that through education, we can change [music] the world, not through guns.

[00:17:58]Babies are born with no hate.

[00:18:01]>> [music] >> I don't think education should teach children to hate anybody.

[00:18:10]What does peace in the world [music] mean to me?

[00:18:15]It means that my sons can [music] grow old in a safe world.

[00:18:22]It means [music] that my grandchildren can grow old in a safer world.

[00:18:30]>> [music] [music] >> Well, do I still have problems?

[00:18:41]Yes, I still have problems.

[00:18:45]Normally, you know, or physically injuries it shouldn't be a problem, but you know, getting that constant psychiatric help that you might need. Uh and or if you become an addict, uh getting that recovery that you need and that all of that, it it's still issues.

[00:19:03]But, I've learned to deal with it.

[00:19:06]The problems I had with sleep and with pain, I see it as a symptoms of of of the experiences that I had.

[00:19:16]And so, I learned to live with it.

[00:19:21]>> [music] [music] >> I know I'm still afraid. If you weren't real, I'd make you up.

[00:19:37]Now I wish that I could follow through. I know that your love is true and deep as the sea.

[00:19:48]We're right now.

[00:19:50]Everything you want is wrong and right now.

[00:19:55]I only think of >> [music] >> No difference by Shel Silverstein.

[00:20:09]Small as a peanut, big as a giant, we're all the same size when we turn [music] off the light.

[00:20:18]Rich as a sultan, poor as a mite, we're all worth the same when we turn off the light.

[00:20:26]Red, black, [music] or orange, yellow or white, we all look the same >> [music] >> when we turn off the light.

[00:20:35]So, maybe the way to make everything right is for God to just reach [music] out and turn off the light.

[00:20:47]>> [music] >> I like that poem because it reminds me that um we're all the same.

[00:20:55]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> And for that, [music] I think it's a it's inherent in all of us. Peace is innate in all of us.

[00:21:38]Suheir Hammad [music] is Palestinian-American poet. She was Her parents >> [music] >> came from Palestine.

[00:21:47]As refugee, they went to Amman, Jordan, and she was born there. She is a a champion for peace.

[00:21:55]Many of her poems are about women [music] and about women's reclaiming and resilience in conflict, [music] in crisis. So, I am profoundly, profoundly inspired by her position, affirmative [music] belief in the act of nonviolence, and her denunciation of conflict [music] and war in one general, and also acting in the same way, and yet staying resilient and [music] standing on her feet and ground and saying no to violence.

[00:22:33]>> [music] >> What I will >> [music] >> by Suheir Hammad.

[00:22:41]I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul [music] nor my bones to your war drum.

[00:22:47]I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat.

[00:22:51]It is lifeless.

[00:22:52]>> [music] >> I know intimately that skin you're hitting. I was alive once, haunted, stolen, stretched.

[00:23:00]I [music] will not dance to your drummed-up war.

[00:23:04]I will not pop, spin, break for you.

[00:23:07]>> [music] >> I will not hate for you, or even hate you. I will not kill for you.

[00:23:14]Especially, [music] I will not die for you.

[00:23:17]I will not mourn the dead with murder, nor suicide. [music] I will not side with you, nor dance to bombs, because everyone is dancing.

[00:23:26][music] Everyone can be wrong. Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

[00:23:34]I will not forget where I come from. I will craft my own drum, gather my beloved [music] nearer, and our chanting will be dancing. Our humming will be drumming. I will not be played. I will not lend my name, >> [music] >> nor my rhythm, to your beat. I will dance and resist and dance.

[00:23:55]This heartbeat is louder than death.

[00:23:57]Your war drum [music] ain't louder than this breath.

[00:24:15]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> The thatched roof blends low.

[00:25:25]Beside the brook, green grasses grow. In the precious world of men, I am living.

[00:25:31]Strong [music] is the sunlight. Tender is the ripple. Humans are as happy as plants. [music] Love is as happy as rain.

[00:25:52]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Goodbye and farewell to wars. Goodbye and farewell to disputes.