lunes, julio 26, 2010

Artistas por la guerra - Lucas Ospina


La Patria ha sido mancillada por los actos y declaraciones transformistas de una nación que en otros tiempos fue un país hermano. Ante el destino belicoso que pronostican los hechos resulta fundamental invocar el concurso de los artistas, sobre todo los de la palabra, para que nos ayuden en este momento aciago: para entender tenemos que imaginar y para imaginar necesitamos de las artes imaginativas. Necesitamos justificar y perdonar la batalla que está por venir y qué mejor guía que un rezo sublime que nos blinde de lo melifluo y lo baboso, que mantenga intacta nuestra dignidad, que nos aleje de la mentira evidente y maliciosa del realismo mágico mediático, una oración para la pasión y la sangre, para el gran latido al que nos unimos (o nos reduce el enemigo común), una oración de guerra:

«Oh Señor, nuestro Padre, nuestros jóvenes patriotas, ídolos de nuestros corazones, salen a batallar. ¡Mantente cerca de ellos! Con ellos partimos también nosotros —en espíritu— dejando atrás la dulce paz de nuestros hogares para aniquilar al enemigo. ¡Oh Señor nuestro Dios, ayúdanos a destrozar a sus soldados y convertirlos en despojos sangrientos con nuestros disparos; ayúdanos a cubrir sus campos resplandecientes con la palidez de sus patriotas muertos; ayúdanos a ahogar el trueno de sus cañones con los quejidos de sus heridos que se retuercen de dolor, ayúdanos a destruir sus humildes viviendas con un huracán de fuego; ayúdanos a acongojar los corazones de sus viudas inofensivas con aflicción inconsolable; ayúdanos a echarlas de sus casas con sus niñitos para que deambulen desvalidos por la devastación de su tierra desolada, vestidos con harapos, hambrientos y sedientos, a merced de las llamas del sol de verano y los vientos helados del invierno, quebrados en espíritu, agotados por las penurias, te imploramos que tengan por refugio la tumba que se les niega —por el bien de nosotros que te adoramos, Señor—, acaba con sus esperanzas, arruina sus vidas, prolonga su amargo peregrinaje, haz que su andar sea una carga, inunda su camino con sus lágrimas, tiñe la nieve blanca con la sangre de las heridas de sus pies! Se lo pedimos, animados por el amor, a Aquel quien es Fuente de Amor, sempiterno y seguro refugio y amigo de todos aquellos que padecen. A El, humildes y contritos, pedimos Su ayuda. Amén».

La oración de guerra de Samuel Clemens, redactada en 1904 —una época de gran exaltación y emoción—, es el mantra ideal para que hasta los más reticentes sean capaces de tragarse el sapo afeminado de la diplomacia y comprendan que la guerra es la continuación de la política por otros medios. "Sólo a los muertos les está permitido decir la verdad", dijo Clemens tras el rechazo que recibió su oración por parte de una editorial de la época. El texto fue publicado seis años después de la muerte de su autor (este año se cumple su centenario). No crea el lector que está ante el rezo de un hombre “que era un lunático porque no tenía sentido nada de lo que había dicho”, no, la proclama de Clemens es la dosis precisa de racionalidad que merece este tipo de coyunturas; su arte hoy está tan vigente como el varonil arte de la guerra.


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