Taino Sol

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