My whole life I held
This promise
If I waited
I'd hear the sonnet
Of my longing
My chest would heave
My spine would soften
I've been
Listening for a tide
To pull me out of the white
And into purple
Congregated, my family
Sings over me
You will grow to see
Deep unto deep
The fire in the earth
Is spreading to the fields
I heard it from miles and miles away
It made me quake
With love and hate
For this deep
