If We Praise (We Are Beautiful)

We are beautiful
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We are beautiful
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We are beautiful
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We are beautiful
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The names of our fallen
We lift the broken with our light
The names of our fallen
We praise their names and the hands that write

Praise the mouth that speaks
Praise the truth that soars
From the spine of the most nimble creatures

Praise us creatures
And our immodest fragility
Praise us creatures
Praise the humility

The learned spaces, the space that dissolves
And births the wind, praise the wind
And the storms that change course

Praise the creatures born and reborn
Praise the boom bap split, silence, shattered
Praise the fragmented bodies and heavy breathing like rain
Praise the rain, feeding our hearts and homes and leaves

Praise the green, praise the Black
Praise the bullet breaking brown flesh like fruit
Breaking brown flesh like fruit
Breaking brown flesh like fruit

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
And worth the stretched breath of the unimagined and unseen
Praise the nightmares we've endured
The salt we've tasted in our release
Praise the divine living
And our voices reaching towards the sky
Singing our own name
Praise the fruit
Praise the stomachs and minds unfed
Praise the hungry
Praise the God in everything
Praise yourself
Your own flesh
Sinewy, boundless, overweight
Glorious and alive
Praise the life
Praise the durable love
Praise our sovereign journey
Praise the destruction
How it reminds us that ribs heal
And purpled lips return
Perfect and pointing towards the sun
Praise the burial
Praise the new day
And the healing
Praise the repetition
Praise the repetition
Praise the repetition
The times it will take us to remember that

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful

We are beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful



Credits
Writer(s): Mahogany L Browne, Sean Mason
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