Dignified

(The ballad of Digna Ochoa)

To all those women who are fighting for dignity and respect

I am a woman who cries

I am a woman who speaks

I am a woman who gives life

I am a woman who pounds

I am a woman spirit

I am a woman who screams

At night you can hear a cry, it comes from afar

Down south they say, it’s the voice of silence

In this closet there are skeletons hiding

Because a woman, because a woman fought for her rights

From the mountain you can hear the voice of thunder

It is the clear voice, the lightning bolt of truth

In this holy life, where nobody forgives anything

But if a woman — but if a woman — fights for her dignity

I followed your footsteps, little girl

Up to the mountain

And I followed the way to a God

In the company of ghosts