OFFICIAL VOICE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Photo: Osvaldo Salas

June brought the stormy rain,

the natural star that rocks the wind.

June filled the sea with feeling

with the delicate presence of a rose.

Vilma will know how to guard the exquisite

faithful foam of a sky spilled

like the silence of her beloved

under the friendly glass of another rose.

I saw her levitate like a star

alive, serene, pleasant, and aflame.

Vilma, still shining like a spark,

converted into the perennial rose,

made into a song and a dream realized

like a clear star at dawn.

Nancy Morejón