Let me tell you the tale of my mother<\/p>\n
Not the one who physically bore me<\/p>\n
The one who the High Priest stated that hovers<\/p>\n
Over me, protects me, lives through me<\/p>\n
Known to Catholics as Our Lady of Charity<\/p>\n
Best known to our Afro-Boriquen brothers and sisters as the<\/p>\n
Goddess of fresh waters<\/p>\n
Beauty<\/p>\n
Love<\/p>\n
Luxuries<\/p>\n
Pleasures<\/p>\n
Fertility<\/p>\n
Sexuality<\/p>\n
She approaches her children walking through the rivers of many plights<\/p>\n
Dancing in her yellow gold dress, adorned in peacock feathers<\/p>\n
With tears of joy forming in her eyes<\/p>\n
Sweet as honey she seduces love and compassion amongst all who call unto her<\/p>\n
Brought over to our Puerto Rican people from across the African seas<\/p>\n
Her Spanish name, a cover, La Caridad del Cobre<\/p>\n
Her true name divine, la mas linda (the most beautiful), Oshun<\/p>\n
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