La Paciencia Pobrecita

I feel like crying
Poor patience
That gave so much shelter to the world
Back in the dye
Strand by strand, day after day

Stretching on the loom
Grandma's Indian secrets
The America of memory
Women eternalize
Knot by knot, day after day

Cover me when I die
With a woven blanket
By my countrywomen
Don't end yet
Little angels of the guards
Oh, my mothers
Oh, my mothers

How can I not honor
Items acquired with pain
I want to ask for forgiveness
Because I put them on
Thread by thread, day after day

Forgive me for paying so poorly
And for those who say
That a poor woman doesn't know
How to act wisely
Knot by knot, day after day

Cover me when I die
With a woven blanket
By my countrywomen
Don't end yet
Little angels of the guards
Oh, my mothers
Oh, my mothers