This morning I am born again and light shines through the land
I’d give myself my heart my soul to lend a friend a hand
And every deathly humming dove I love and understand
And there is only emptiness against me
Where once the dust I suffered from would find me in my sleep
It pushed me and it pulled me and it promised many things
I moved too fast I throttled back ashamed at my relief
I feared the gentleness of my ambition
This morning I am light untying unwritten belief
I ride the rising horselight as it drives across the creek
And breezes lap the bracken back and slip between my teeth
And all around is evidence of plenty
I've seen pasture after pasture and their fragments in the air
I've seen bodies flown and bodies thrown and bodies shown such care
I've gathered up my own and there were still so many there
Asking who is making up these questions
And this morning I am born and I am for the forms we are
In our great eternal moment in the thrall of our own star
In our bordered and our neighbored and our tortured little yards
Fighting all this emptiness against us
So we hip the sumac lip the dew sap rip the rabbit lines
So we dash the sundrenched tacked and tongueless no trespassing signs
Like raspberries and leaves and steam we reach into our skies
And there is only emptiness against us
