Una Canción de Ella (A Song From Her) by Hector Gonzalez
Read by Conner Arnold
En la noche es donde vivía (She lived at night)
Bajo del reflector en el teatro (Under the spotlight in the theater)
Allí es donde nació de verdad (There is where she was really born)
En la luz, enfrente de todos se convierto en la muerte (Under the light, in front of everyone she
became death)
Under that mask, the chains became loose
Las demandas de la multitud fueron silenciadas (The demands of the crowd were silenced)
She was no virgin nor was she some whore
Era la muerte, todos le termia (She was death, all feared her)
Su mascara era un blanco marfil (Her mask was an ivory white)
She stood on stage, the crowd
Demands surfaced again, they demanded she danced
Decían que la muerte bailaba, pero (They said death danced, but)
She knew that Mictēcacihuātl danced when she wanted to
Not when she was told
She was no servant to their entertainment
Mictēcacihuātl paraba del lado de Mictlantecuhtli (Mictēcacihuātl stood by the side of
Mictlantecuhtli)
No atrás de el (Not behind him)
Las luces del teatro desaparecieron (The lights of the theater disappeared)
She began to sing, an Ode to arms
Her voice echoed, a cacophony of voices sang in the teatro
Su canción era la canción de muchas mas (Her song was the song of many more)
Su voz era su propria multitud (Her song contained its own multitude)
Su canción puede haber caído en oídos sordos (Her song may have fallen on deaf ears)
The crowd became silenced once more
Her canción rang true, a song of the past
Un pasado forgotten desde años atrás (A past forgotten years ago)
The luces, they came back when the song
Reached a crescendo, su máscara, it had changed
Marfil, Marrón, Ébano, Jade (Ivory, Brown, Black, Jade)
Su masacra, un mozaico de todos los colores (Her mask, a mosaic of all the colors)
Era cada un idivudal mente, pero ira todos al mismo tiempo (It was every individual color, but it
was all of them at once)
