I Carry Your Heart in My Heart

I carry your heart in me
oh beautiful grandmothers
of this sacred land
oh shining lake
in the storms that come
oh brightening green
of the trees that sing
I carry your heart with me
oh dear friend who gives me song
oh dear friends who open up the air
with courage that climbs and aches with love
I carry this place in me
wide green heart that holds its own
place of tribes and medicines long gone
but here, still here

The secret that nobody knows
grows rots to blossom
trees to stone
the earth alive in the wind and sun
right here
I carry all this heart with me
in my heart

-- Caryn