Sunday, April 3, 2016

I know your heart Carolyn Jackson 3/26/16


I know,
the secrets of your heart,
all the cobwebbed corners of it....
the passion and immense beat of it,
as....I know my own

I know the child within,
I know the woman who holds her
the mother who knows her....
as you do
because I am that mother,
as you are....

I know,
the embrace of a father,
the courage, the strength....
being offered to me,
as they are to you....
they are with me always...
as they are with you....


I know that same breath of peace,
that you know....
and the restless, surging, seeking of your soul...
I know as my own...
I know your freedom,
and I know your chains...
I know your dreams,
and your despair....
and I have your hope....


I know your sweetly warming smile,
and the wet salt of your tears...
I know the depths of your kindness,
and the ice of your cruelty....
I know your doubt,
and I know your certainty...
because I share the same capacity....
for these, as you do.....

I know your birth,
and I will know your death...
I live a life,
and will choose the story of it....
as you will....

despite what some would try to tell us,
despite the separation, so ignorantly being
pointed out to us....
despite the artificial differences,
which are said to be so insurmountable, between us....
I know your heart,
I know it,
as my own...