Tongues

Pick me up, dust me off, give me breath and let me cough. Drag me back, collect my thoughts. I've come back to the land I'd lost. The palms are down, I'm welcomed back to town. Sometimes, I feel, like they don't understand me. I hear, their mouths, m

No prayers can reach me here No light can touch Among reduced Bibles, cigarettes and drugs I carve your name in my flesh Listen, listen Then come and take my hand Tongues, tongues Speak the little girls name Tongues, tongues Shame, shame Tongues, ton