The skin of my body is the skin of a drum Every lash across my ribs conducts percussive song Scarified 16 bars A note for every flaw Each wound Connecting like constellations
I am Ursa Major Den father to sons and daughters Children unaware of their place amongst the stars But Great love cannot be contained Like wine in jars of clay Cracked and thinning pottery We are merely A cup trying to contain the ocean Overflowing and drunken from the our contents intoxicating spirit Gushing forth from our fissures and cracks Our bones may lay brittle But in death they will be stacked Blazing funeral piers scraping against the heavens an indication of our crowning destination For we are made of dust and breath Living only starts at death For our soles were meant for steps Our heads have no place to rest We wave no flags Giving allegiance to no empire For the kingdom we serve is unseen Underfoot Not upon the backs of an ass or a pachyderm Beasts of a burdened political system When asked, who are you? We reply I? I am not, I represent the Great I Am We speak on behalf of the one with a voice like a trumpet call Isa, Living water Bridegroom Great shepherd The burning bush that was not consumed Teaching us that the greatest victories are indicated by the scraped knees of the servant The ones who pad their footfalls by walking on hand and knee Our backs will become bent in the shape of a bell curve Gaussian functions indicting we are dictated by our hearts And we bend north and south from there So awake children of Zion Understand the lamp you hold in such high esteem only blinds you Let us not cling to the safety of steeples and spires Totemism of glass and mortar Built to echo till the voices become one sound That they think is our God’s speech So do not sit with bated breath Stock straight eyes ahead in those wooden bastilles As a great friend once told me *There is only death in our safety And We serve a God that breathes