The sound of your voice thundering out of the earth 2. a drum beat summoning us to prayer 3. behold the smell of your breathing 4. dilated by politics you dared to love 5. you opened up your throat to travellers 6. exhaled Lead Belly on Saturday nites and Sunday mornings 7. your music asked: has your song a father or a mother? 8. on stage you were a soldier of hands 9. accenting beat after beat into beauty 10. you asked: is there no song that will bring rain to this desert? 11. you unveiled your voice at early demonstrations 12. saluted our blood until we were no longer strangers 13. waltzed our eyes until we danced from chandeliers 14. your songs journeyed in a country padlocked with greed 15. a country still playing on adolescent knees 16. suddenly the morning takes you back another time another continent 17. where stones contacted stars told us hello and goodbye 18. finally we remember how you gave life to memory 19. remember your eyes morning stars perfumed with rain 20.
