Homecoming II
By Elizabeth Argall
Biography
You are my people
You who belittle
Control or despise
Your inner gods
You are my people
You who are greater than all I am or ever will be
And whose breath is a poets dream
You who fear
You who love
You who are what you are
And you who are not
You are my heartbeat
My country
My life
Chant with me and step sideways
Dance with me, fall throught the cracks
Spider’s web to heal the wounds
Wound soft and yielding
Wander the earth
and bind deeply with it
it owns us
sing songs
what is there to understand?
- 2001