I am
I am a Christian
I am a Jew
I am a Hindu
through and through.
I’ve done leaps and bounds,
tethers to be sewn
lookin’ for the place
before I was born,
born to the sky,
born to the land,
born to be wild
and to understand.
I’ve peered at the people
and the prayers they’ve prayed
put them in my pocket
for a rainy day.
I am a red child
I am a white
I am a song
for the pale moonlight.
I’ve crossed the rivers,
setting with the sun,
the thing I’ve found,
we are here to be one.
One to be silly,
one to be sad,
one to find the treasure
that the last one had.
All the crooks and crannies
counting on the way
here to love the world
stars show me the way.
-Caroline M. Kirby