What if lovers said
"sweet worm", "soil of my heart"
Imagine facing down in ecstasy to pray
not because we don't dare to look towards the bearded guy in the sky but because it's understood that those feet, that soil, this prayer
are all sacred
Why are the un-lovely things named soiled?
why look at the ground and call it dirt?
Such a thin loveless word for the home
of everything springing up from this earth
Why entomb our clever feet in strange substance
*you tiny creatures swimming eons ago
coming to rest in rock, heated and pressed
unimaginably long, and all of a sudden
Struck ("black gold!")
pumped up, surfacing again in a confusion
of movement and dazzling light after so long*
Now become soles for shoes.
As you walk your soles are the earth disguised
kissing itself at every step
<3
Oct 15, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 at 2:08 AM UTC
What if lovers said
"sweet worm", "soil of my heart"
Imagine facing down in ecstasy to pray
not because we don't dare to look towards the bearded guy in the sky but because it's understood that those feet, that soil, this prayer
are all sacred
Why are the un-lovely things named soiled?
why look at the ground and call it dirt?
Such a thin loveless word for the home
of everything springing up from this earth
Why entomb our clever feet in strange substance
*you tiny creatures swimming eons ago
coming to rest in rock, heated and pressed
unimaginably long, and all of a sudden
Struck ("black gold!")
pumped up, surfacing again in a confusion
of movement and dazzling light after so long*
Now become soles for shoes.
As you walk your soles are the earth disguised
kissing itself at every step
<3
I got thinking about the importance of the words we use to describe earth when i was reading this interview of Nader Khalili (architect and Rumi translator) http://www.earthlight.org/khalili_interview.html
