#pampini

Shuyara came and visited me again.

It's kind of her to keep coming back, to see an old broken down war machine. The vines are happy to see her, too. They writhe in my chest when they sense her footsteps, painlessly, twining around my core like a flutter in my heart, had I still had one. The leshy and I are connected at the mind. It obeys my movements when needed, but is still very much its own being. I have grown used to the feeling.

I had forgotten most of myself in my time out here. Waking up after an untold amount of time to find my right arm gone, and a gaping cavity in my chest that had grown full of vines, left me disoriented. The first thing I tried to do was pull them out, only to be met with pain as if I were tugging out my own entrails. The vines curled around me and communicated, not in words but in feelings, that they were part of me, and we would be okay. I call them Pampini, an old word for vines, though their true name is longer and tough to translate into words from what I can only describe as 'vibes.' It seemed that when I was injured, my core was cracked-- the thing that houses my soul, within this metal chassis. The leaking of my soul is what animated Pampini to life, and they rooted inside me, trying to connect to the rest of themselves. But this left me fractured mentally. I could not remember how to speak and I was mad with hunger. This is why, the first time I met Shuyara, I attacked her. I smelled metal and I craved the rush of energy of consuming another automaton core. But she could command fire, and I fled from the flames like a fearful beast.

When I ran, though, she followed me. She spoke, and I recognized the old language, although I struggled to communicate anything back. It took several more visits, many nights spent listening to her stories, before I could form a response. Sometimes she would stay for months, but she always eventually left to gather more stories. Several times, she asked me to follow her. And part of me wanted to. But something heavy and deep in my core stopped me every time. I could remember who I had lost, and I could see little point in a world without him in it, no direction for me to go in without his command. I was a knight, completely dedicated to my liege, and without him I was nothing. Shuyara kept telling me I wasn't nothing, we were both ageless and had eternity stretching before us, inviting us to give it purpose.

Gabino Pampini llevará su música a Canadá

      El cantante panameño Gabino Pampini ofrecerá un espectáculo en la ciudad canadiense de Mississauga.

El concierto se realizarà el pròximo 9 de mayo. A propósito del show, Pampini invitó a la comunidad latina de este país, en especial a las madres, a participar en esta actividad, donde cantará temas como: Cuerpo de guitarra, A nuestro modo, Ilusión y Mi vecina, entre otros.

Con más de 20 años…