Where Day and Night Shall Meet
where day and night shall meet
a poem by the participants in “the perfect daughter/ who was not me”
a workshop based on Audre Lorde’s “in the house of yemanja”
where liberation and love shall meet and not be limited
where light and love shall meet and not be temporary.
where limits and love shall meet and not be scarce
where empathy and love shall meet and not be fiction
where truth and radical love shall meet and not be buried
where prayer and song shall meet and not be weary
where hope and joy shall meet and not be lost
where love and justice shall meet and not be dogmatic
where love and compassion shall meet and not be withdrawn
where compassion and truth shall meet and not be exclusive
where longing and devotion shall meet and not be limerence
where doing and passion shall meet and not be forgotten
where seer and seen shall meet and not be divided
where judgement and story shall meet and not be fixed
where masculinity and femininity shall meet and not be exclusive
where courage and doubt shall meet and not be frozen
where feather and bone shall meet and not be a remnant
where the memory and oblivion shall meet and not be wounds
where pain and joy shall meet and not be different
where time and space shall meet and not be erased
where love and duty shall meet and not be heavy
where joy and peace shall meet and not be empty
where faith and fear shall meet and not be finite
where fear and freedom shall meet and not be trampled asunder
where water and water shall meet and not be confused
where sea and drop shall meet and not be thirsty
where mother and daughter shall meet and not be painful
where water and earth shall meet and not be exploited
where possibility and responsibility shall meet and not be at odds
where tough and tender shall meet and not be afraid.
where care and trust shall meet and not be draining
where softness and tenderness shall meet and not be considered weak
where care and letting go shall meet and not be resented
where rage and love shall meet and not be contradicted
where you and me shall meet and not be eroded
where you and me shall meet and not be afraid
where I and I shall meet and not be afraid