Chicana
May 23, 2017
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You are the plant of life, the plant of empowering,
You are the rose that has been blossoming,
A woman you ARE,
You are the star,
That’s equivalent to a never ending reach,
You are as sweet as a peach, yet tough as the skin that keeps a pineapple fresh,
You are Chicana, Americana,
A cactus who manages to live in the desert,
I see the effort, the face that speaks thousands of pains, thousands of triumphs,
You are Chicana, a mixture of fighting against deportation, colonization, assimilation,
Your ancestors would be proud, for you are Chicana,
I hear it out loud. Chicana!
You are not just a heavy accent, but a bloodline of hungry descent,
You are Chicana!
Fierce with your head up high, Chicana till the day that you die,
Chicana a woman who is called a gringa in Mexico, but a Mexican bean in the USA,
Chicana I am.
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