Title Stanza:
“For Travelers
on the Road
Just Before
Daybreak”
Stanza 1:
You coo your song, white-winged dove,
In the branches of the ceiba tree.
With you sing the squirrel cuckoo,
The red-winged blackbird,
The lesser roadrunner
And the mockingbird.
All of them jubilant,
The Father's pets,
Delight of God.
Stanza 2:
Likewise the Mother
Has her birds:
Turtle-doves,
Little cardinals,
Euphonias
And hummingbirds.
These are her companions,
The birds of the Mother,
Our Lady.
Stanza 3:
If there is such joy
Among these creatures,
Why don't our hearts
Also feel delight?
They act this way
Each daybreak:
Beautiful ecstasy.
Just songs, just games
Enter their thoughts.
(Songs of Dzitbalché 14)