Fire

The lecture falls on my head where I've been called to listen Where my father's hard work has planted me but sadly, there's no sun. My sun-tanned family couldn't know where I've been when the dark was believed to be a time of rest, for me, a sea, it's supposed to fall over me like this lecture which just won't sink in That just cannot touch me... No, my mind is behind the sight of my supine lover who I drove to the ground with an underwire and the curve of neck Who I covered with my mouth when I made myself a tree and deeper, deeper, my roots can touch and feel it all at once... that overwhelming well that bursts with tears from my eyes like a spring The darkness holds my open heart and puts a hunger in my hips puts a flame in the pit and I just can't put it out Not today Not now Words will have to roll off again and maybe today I will fail to listen but this is what I am what my chest and lips have made me an unquenchable fire