I think a lot about the girl from the camp in Guantánamo she is a flower among the flowers a mountain in the mountains, she lives and never has to go anywhere
There, birds are singing in the palms a stream flows through the valley the water shines softer than gold and she is a white rose in June and in January
About her, I want to write sunbeams in the eternal forest a sparkling song from my heart in bright green words and flaming red music
She is my soul, she melts weapons with feathers and coral water, with laurel she heals the wounded deer, the girl from the camp in Guantánamo
“V. Si ves un monte de espumas” (“V. When you see a lot of foam”) // “Versos Sencillos” – I, III, V, XXXIX (“Simple Poems”, 1891, José Marti)
“Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera” (“Guantánamo Girl, Girl from the Guantánamo Camp”, 1958, Julián Orbón)