Snakelife

I used to dream I'd shed my skin And leave it lying on the ground Crawl away from where I'd been A new and wet and gleaming one But every scar and every bruise They shine like blue Botswana jewels What did not kill me fills me With the power of a thousand suns Woo-hoo, ooh-ooh Every wound a rift, a hide A portal to another time Time slips and folds and flees and flies She teaches us we are divine Woo-hoo, ooh-ooh We travel time back to thе child Back to that inner garden wild And further up and furthеr in To the indigo sky past the red sea cliff Where our wings unfurl We fly further still In and up and up and in Past the deathless stars Through the breathless void We burst through our skin Skins turn to asteroids Now the bountiful blackness Weds that pregnant silence And a song is born And those cold rocks transform Into gleaming planets With purple moons And rainbow rings gently coiling Circling, circling In the gravity of the burning suns We now embody bright constellations Bright constellations Never seen before, a whole universe A whole blazing force, a whole blazing force Unstoppable, unstoppable I used to dream, but now I write I wield my words like spindles bright To weave a world where every child Is safe and loved, is safe and loved Is safe and loved And Black is beautiful and good