sensing you, i stood myself tall
i stayed and i grew
ten thousand tiny legs or more—
each root foot set upon your shoulders
lifted me among constellation stars
home i had never left,
not you
thank you ancestors thank you
for your neighborly attentions
sound vibrations spiral strung --
God’s first word, first and second
generation sun, a greening earth,
until everywhere shaping intelligence
this my body finally here
steady and true as weighed stone,
unjudging love is
what you have come to teach me
that i could choose to die to fear
and die to death itself
Jun 11, 2016
Jun 11, 2016 at 7:48 AM UTC
sensing you, i stood myself tall
i stayed and i grew
ten thousand tiny legs or more—
each root foot set upon your shoulders
lifted me among constellation stars
home i had never left,
not you
thank you ancestors thank you
for your neighborly attentions
sound vibrations spiral strung --
God’s first word, first and second
generation sun, a greening earth,
until everywhere shaping intelligence
this my body finally here
steady and true as weighed stone,
unjudging love is
what you have come to teach me
that i could choose to die to fear
and die to death itself
