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where love and compassion shall meet and not be withdrawn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

Julia Wallace