Same Brown Earth

The sun came down from black

And from the dim made light

From dumb made a word

In a blink made an eye

And in a beat made a heart

And in a beat made a heart

It was when a man

Was a ribbon set on fire

Was a sea, salt and ash

When woman was a rock

On distant mountain top

When woman was like glass

Reflecting as a mirror

When man was December

Fog laying low in the valley

And a woman was the torch

Bright in the dark

With full cup and open hand

Gave milk and fed bread

To the lost sons of Adam

Cooking up in kitchens, in rooms

In doom grey tent homes of

The aged or desperate

Of the drunk and forgotten

So true they rest

Rest in the earth

And become the earth

Under carpets of dandelions

Blowing their seed across the breeze

Across that same brown earth

To rise and sing again

To rise and sing again