Enchanted shore descendant Branch upon the kapok tree In forests of El Yunque The coqui songs compelling me To write of the Taino sol Still burning to be free From The Lion's sword that bled The pages of our history
Stolen land attendant Encomienda living property From roots of our ancestral bones Was grown the crown's economy Then baptized in the crosses' greed They cleansed us of our savagery A genocide of cultures made Them rich with inhumanity
Kept at bay our independent Luminescent solidarity Then poured in streams of Lares cries To fields of pure cane tyranny Yet caverns of Camuy echoed The fleeting winds of liberty To tempest warships harboring A hurricane democracy
By '98 dependent In '17 a new decree Final draft trenches fulfilled The ballot box with empty Then sharpened territory clause Reconstituted colony Campos prison cancer cell Vieques poisoned casualty
Infecting the resplendent Contagious hope of sovereignty Pandemics of oppressions past Injecting present poverty Virulent exploitation plagues Still draining veins systemically Indebted to the parasites' Uncommon wealthy travesty