My Blue House

Born as a child I awoke a woman Big spirit inside Big bias viewpoint Where is the world without me? I don’t know I’ve only my blue house And views from her windows So I’ll make a home Where that child may grow And what if I have a daughter? Will she be an artist? Will I deliver her my winding river? The river’s wide, Lord knows I feel it After a swim wise to emerge Sit quietly at the shore Sit quietly Leave alone I hear the monsters knocking at my door I’m screaming back “You will not come in!” What’s the use in shouting answers for? I was at peace I was sitting there writing Uh Oh! Fight violence with quiet Uh Oh! Stay still stay sitting there writing My mother’s anxiety is not my own I sit at the feet of the Katsura tree Green skirt upon its knees I dance, I sing, I write, I laugh, I love, I breath, I let it be I breath I let it be I breath I let it be