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====== <big>De las plantas y las flores,</big> ======

====== <big>Y de mortales engaños</big> ======

====== <big>Y de sublimes dolores.</big> ======

====== <big>…</big> ======

====== <big>(I know strange names</big> ======

====== <big>Of plants and flowers,</big> ======

====== <big>And of deadly cheatings</big> ======

====== <big>And of sublime pains.)</big> ======

<small>José Martí. “Versos Sencillos”, Fragment. ( José Julián Martí Pérez (Havana, 1853 - Dos Ríos, 1895) was a Cuban politician, diplomat, poet, essayist, journalist and philosopher, founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party and organizer of the Cuban War of Independence, during which he died in combat. He is considered the initiator of literary modernism in Latin America. He is considered the national hero of the Republic of Cuba, and his ideals of independence and anti-colonialism have been used by the Cuban regime to politically indoctrinate the Cuban people. But these same ideals of nationalism and independence also serve as a guide and inspiration to the opposition that desires a Cuba without repression, a just country and a republic “with everyone and for the good of everyone”).</small>

The lemon tree is a resilient plant that bears fruit even when it is dying. This plant is a symbol of the members and generations of a Cuban family, it is an inheritance of sentimental and moral values in it.

The death of the plant speaks about the Cuban context, its history and its current sociopolitical crisis that generates physical and sentimental ruptures of its most vulnerable families and inhabitants, especially the humble working generations who, now elderly, have been abandoned by the system to which they gave their faith and the effort of their youth. The piece is a tribute to them.