Ni Una Menos

I would like to have sweet things to write
But I have to decide and I choose anger
5 women have been murdered today
And at least 20 women have been raped by now

That's just one day in Guatemala
Multiply it and you'll know why we're angry
I won't walk on eggshells for those who don't understand
That this is an emergency and we are prepared

I'm not a pacifist, don't demand things I don't offer
I didn't ask for a pedestal, nor do I deserve it
I'm like the others tired of living in fear
Aggressive because it's how I defend myself

I don't have privilege to protect this body
On the street, they see me as a perfect target
But I'm black like my flag and brave
In my name and in the name of all my great-grandmothers

The healer who died from so many blows
Because the man who loved her actually hated her
The other one who was abandoned with a child
And when she got sick, she had to send him to a hospice

This is for me because at 15 years old
I was hit in the face by his hand
Because no human showed up
The day a criminal left me with a scar
This is for the 9-year-old girl
Forced into pregnancy because her brother raped her

A girl without rights because the clergy
Considers abortion worse than what they did to her
I stick to the facts
I won't explain with drawings to any of those males

Who think their intellect will come to educate us
Sitting in their privilege
I don't have privilege to protect this body
On the street, they see me as a perfect target

But I'm black like my flag and brave
In my name and in the name of all my great-grandmothers
Tell us well in the streets we are thousands
From Mexico to Chile and on the entire planet
Standing in the fight because we want to live
We're not afraid, we don't want not one less

Call me crazy, hysterical, and exaggerated
But today I sing in my name
And in the name of all my sisters
Don't accuse us of being violent, this is self-defense
We are in resistance, we are no longer defenseless
But I'm black like my flag and brave
In my name and in the name of all my great-grandmothers