i, you, us, we ,me

We are light, dancing
moving on the water

We are a fire, casting
flickering shadows

We are long, hushed conversations
in the night time

We are the primal, pulsing
Nyabinghi heartbeat

We are the Earth's poems & prayers
prophets, sinners, madmen, poets, dreamers, saints

With dirt on our faces, we lift
them to the sky
to be kissed by the dew

We are a rising constellation
a distant, lonely trumpet
crying out!
We are trees, we are moss
We are oceans, VAST
We are mountains, patient
We are horses & jaguars & eagles
& kittens & crows & slugs
We are shooting stars
but we are also the sunrise

We are a soft kiss,
a sigh,
a gentle hand on yr forehead
a gentle caress on yr back

A cock crows thrice
A new day has begun
My brothers & sisters,
you cut me with silken daggers
you kill me with yr kindness
You sucked the poison from bended knee
You spit it out in a breath of glitter.