to sister

Lyrics for to sister

The weight of a whisper wandering the inner ear Lovelier than your laughter is your loving To grieve is to be alive Your sistering is a song Soft as a thought loose-lipped Unpunish yourself You deserve to be well-kept Held close to the chest A locket of dreaming Unself yourself The best of your beaming is a bread to hungry mouths You are shimmering We need a revolution Rivers of risk tend to your tending Sauntering She swung her hips across borders A bridge called strength Waving her headscarf over the crowd She knew the joy of tears The promise of sweat Seasons of flesh How a body changes from a flower into a flame Everywhere is flickering Women lust for listening Frightening men restless portals walking the earth Drunk on love Protest as possession I do not trust a mouth that has never pronounced the word sister Tasted the blood of our hurried hearts The indifference to our suffering I open a map and shake dust from another Village, city, or country in smoke Sometimes in my dreams the women are free Strands of hair tightly curled and loosely lounging in the way of want A wind climbing the courage of our throats We rest easy Sister My sister Every moment is a now we speak within We are both twelve and ninety-two Looking back at our life while living it For centuries this is how we survived Smacking the mosquitoes at our ankles Giggling in the garden Reading the cards on our palms Sipping funky chardonnay While the guards marvel at our sistering We follow what drives the heart To befriend what names us The road reaches out to our tires A cigarette lit by the fire of being woman and un-womaned Darling I wish a world for you Where breakfast is the best meal of the day Nourished and dancing We are gold Coasting along the ocean of a city What awaits us What awaits a world we share between us