My video where i narrate the poem https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_MK3jDDbEi/
Poetry is the only form of prayer I know
The only church I have ever taken time to return to
to get on my knees or knuckles
to ask for forgiveness
to plead my truth
to drink the body of what I believe is holy and unholy and sacrilegious, alike
And still have hope of entering
the holy library of prophets and healers
I revisit my ancestors
speak to my guides
and hold hands with my father
Poetry is where I pray for healing
of all of my womanly blood lines
It is the only place I commune
feel at ease and sometimes alienated
In the varying perceptions I didn’t know I needed
God speaks through me here
speaking in tongues comes naturally
in these words
in these letters
God speaks to me here
I find myself
in ritual
in sacrifice
I die here
am born fragmented
then whole
I am a believer
In the name of la escritura (the writing), el poema (the poem) and (the spirit‘s) el espiritu’s syllables