Go Write Your Poems

Go write your poems About flowers for children graves Go write your poems About self passions that make you slaves Go write your poems About trees, vulnerable to winter And the white infection of leprosy Go write your poems Rivers that has buried civilizations Blind to where we buried our ammunition Go write your poems While you write I will pray For a crabs worth of faith While you write I will pray For Haiti in travail to birth A new civilization of rage While you write I will pray My sister can increase her wage And they will hire me again While you write I will pray The terrorists can sleep with the lamb And rise to drink its milk alone That flows from our mother's breast I will pray while you write Me a poem for tonight.