When The Water Spoke
This time when the water spoke
We listened
We heard her constant rolling voice
The sound that soothed us to sleep
every night
In our dark bedroom
With the windows open
We heard her in the quiet of nightfall
When the geese call to each other
To come in and rest
When her gentle lapping
As she hits against the dock
Sends waves of memories
through us
How we
Swam for hours as children
Never wanting to come out into
A solid world
Where things broke and people fell down
And hurt their knees
We listened on a great windy day
When the ocean waves
Rose and crashed, rose and crashed
And the wind pushed us hard
our coats wrapped tight around us
breathing the ocean’s air
This time we listened even harder
Because our sister water
Is in so much danger
that we may lose her
to the loud machines drilling
beneath her rivers
Sending poison
into the very heart
of her liquid body
We hear you
We hear you
Our blood speaks back to you, our sister
Can we wash these captors into your sea ?
Birth them through your body again?
Cleanse them in your cool rivers?
Open their ears to your singing voice?
This time when the water spoke
We listened
Moonlight and Morning Star 