Etched in My Mind

I am still thinking about you mother

Slapping me awake 40 years on

New space time moving thataway

Carried miles across country to me

Her daughter, blood, her hopes

I close my eyes and see Yagu

I could feel the love hugs

To be etched in my mind

Walgajunmanha Walgajunmanha

My faith is in our Ancestors

We carried it forward

For the nyarlu black woman

Storytellers would emerge

Our many matriarchs made us

A women’s daily dance for good

I crouch in your shadow of awesomeness

You still had records to monitor your life

No dissolving and disappearing for everyone

Like a young mother carrying her baby

You carried and carried

Powerful energy in and is me

We can stand our ground because of her