A Love Song For Miriam
Dear Miriam
I am holding the keys to your songs in my hands
I know you opened the world
With a mouth full of teeth
Clinging to the border
You held the click of our bones
In the twist of your tongue
You electrifying song
Burning through skin and bone
When you sing
Salt water, seeps through your throat
Sterilizes our bones
Soaks all our stones
And all our blood returns with a pulse to its people
You made music like you were making
A war cry for its mother tongue
Though home, was a distant wounded storm
You sang for the hurricane
Gushing through our bones
You gave noise
A quiet voice for grieving
A gentle blues
For the descendants of a noose
For jumping Jacks
For kings and queens of solitaire
I hope you rest in the music you gave
Our country, is still a bleeding tune
We do not sing the way we sang along to you
Miriam
You may be gone in the song of bone and the music of drying flesh
Your organs may have stopped playing
Your body is mute
But the music hasn't stopped breathing for you
I am holding the keys to your songs in my hands
I know you opened the world
With a mouth full of teeth
Clinging to the border
You held the click of our bones
In the twist of your tongue
You electrifying song
Burning through skin and bone
When you sing
Salt water, seeps through your throat
Sterilizes our bones
Soaks all our stones
And all our blood returns with a pulse to its people
You made music like you were making
A war cry for its mother tongue
Though home, was a distant wounded storm
You sang for the hurricane
Gushing through our bones
You gave noise
A quiet voice for grieving
A gentle blues
For the descendants of a noose
For jumping Jacks
For kings and queens of solitaire
I hope you rest in the music you gave
Our country, is still a bleeding tune
We do not sing the way we sang along to you
Miriam
You may be gone in the song of bone and the music of drying flesh
Your organs may have stopped playing
Your body is mute
But the music hasn't stopped breathing for you
Credits
Writer(s): Mandisa Vundla
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