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Reconciliation: A Prayer Lyrics by Joy Harjo

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky

1994

I.
We gather at the shore of all knowledge as people who were put here by a god who wanted relatives.
This god was lonely for touch, and imagined herself as a woman, with children to suckle, to sing with--to continue the web of the terrifyingly beautiful cosmos of her womb.
This god became a father who wished for others to walk beside him in the belly of creation.
This god laughed and cried with us as a sister at the sweet tragedy of our predicament--foolish humans--
Or built a fire, as our brother to keep us warm.
This god who grew to love us became our lover, sharing tables of food enough for everyone in this whole world.
II.
Oh sun, moon, stars, our other relatives peering at us from the inside of god's house walk with us as we climb into the next century naked but for the stories we have of each other. Keep us from giving up in this land of nightmares which is also the land of miracles.
We sing our song which we've been promised has no beginning or end.
III.
All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.
IV.
We gather up these strands broken from the web of life. They shiver with our love, as we call them the names of our relatives and carry them to our home made of the four directions and sing:
Of the south, where we feasted and were given new clothes.
Of the west, where we gave up the best of us to the stars as food for the battle.
Of the north, where we cried because we were forsaken by our dreams.
Of the east because returned to us is the spirit of all that we love.
for the Audre Lorde Memorial 1993
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Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

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