Lullabies
And if you have no words left to say
Hum to me.
Like the lullabies born before we learned to walk
Melodies made to say the simple before there were words to dilute
Meaning
‘I am here’
It is a tune we used to sing with each breath
But the older we get
The more we forget how it began.
So if you remember
When a We was born
From You and Me
Loosen your lips
Let our love vibrate through them
Up from your core
Down into mine
Let us break
Apart
Like the buildings too weathered to maintain their foundations
Let us fall
Loose
Without direction
I’ll find the building blocks in our rubble
Order our chaos
I will reconstruct
Me
You
We
Because how we are is no longer allowing us to be anything,
Except history.
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Poem by Nicole Asherah. Nicole Asherah is an artist who tries to connect people to intimate moments, feelings, and relationships experienced throughout life through her poetry, paintings, and photography.
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