Shrove Tuesday in the gardens of El Castillo. Some Portuguese tourists admire the Zamora Romanesque, pose next to an almond tree that heralds spring. The air cuts the skin like a razor and the sun breaks through in a pure blue sky. No one else at this noon, just the silence of a city asleep all year.
A little superhero dressed in a blue suit and red cape walks ahead of his mother with clenched fists and threatens "the bad guys." He gazed at it with his little arms gliding in an imaginary sky; He smiles from afar while the world holds its breath, without knowing either. Children should never know certain things.
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For more than a month, my time in the operating room plunged me into the deep sleep that anesthesia and morphine provide, that trip to nowhere without a homeland, pain, or memory. Just a month ago, children like the little superhero played in the streets of Ukraine, walked with their mothers, like this young mother with her curls in the air who photographs her son with her mobile phone, who runs around and wants to save the world with a disguise and childish innocence as a weapon. Those superpowers that we lose along the way when we become adults.
A little over a month ago, in Spain there was talk of Castilla y León and the self-destruction bombs in the PP. Then the staples fell from my wound and truth bombs began to fall on the ground as the peace is shattered by a paranoid 'son of Putin'.
And now, while on Ukrainian trains women draw hearts with broken hearts; while the men cry on the platform leaving their families behind; While the children sleep in the subway, where the trees do not flourish, where the subsoil cushions the impact of the bombs, a little Zamorano is happy saving the world without knowing that everything we are dies in every war. Under the flight of his cape this column was born, between the desire to return to the dream of anesthesia, not to wake up in this world in which a megalomaniac destroyed so many real heroes, and the desperate search in the closet for the superpowered suit able to save the world from itself.
