Woman arise and shine
You are the seal of all creation!
You have virtue, you have courage, you have purpose.
You are the being that generates life, love and passion.
You are tenderness, you are beauty
But did you not estimate that you are its complement
and the heart that sustains life
And he wanted to extinguish your dreams
and clip the wings of your freedom.
As if you were not born of woman,
He wanted to tear from you
what you gave birth to
He made you believe that you were
worthless and without virtue.
He left you as if you were lifeless
The same thing happened to me
But I decided not to die and
cried out to heaven.
And he pulled me out of the pit of despair,
out of the muddy mire;
He set my feet upon a rock,
And made my steps straight.
Mayra Santos