Protectors not Protesters change my sixth & eighth letter on your tongue repeat after me I AM water my corazon seventy-three percent agua pachamama seventy percent aqua together we are life it is twenty sixteen the black snake is alive too my memory holds a rainbow stretching into my bisabuelas hands they are knitting a web of stars underneath my feet I AM suspended in disbelief sorrow so deep the roots are digging into her eyes shut down in centuries genocide genetic memorias of rushing rivers that save me every night they bathe me renewed under moons light my skin glows embers of constellations connecting me to the prophecy my family tree a sprouting seed of rebellion peaking in mountains and deserts across a dry spell mount me on your cross and burn me I Am an altar made of water all of me before and ever after keeper of secrets an alchemist of ages when counting states of matter liquid is the one I remember to return allow the flow to overtake me make me new creator that I may protect her and her veins which are my life #irisdeanda #poetry #wateriife #aguaesvida #mniwiconi #wordsareourmedicine 💧🌀💙 (at Elephant Hill)
