who shall know me
when my name is gone –
and buried deep
these withered bones
who shall keep of love I gave –
and speak of me in hush
in silence of remembrance
another birth to pass –
to lean against
the arms of life –
the redbud that I loved
to know her faith is stronger
for summers that we shared
and days I cried
beside her
in the rain
who shall know
and who shall bear the burden
of regrets –
words so few
I kept aside for this
to know my place
of simple grace –
to sleep where few still dream
to walk and never think to them
as someone else I knew
would carry me –
as I shall carry them
let loose
the cause for liberty –
the cause that would be mine
remembered once I moved
between these lines of hurt
and rhyme
who shall know
of nights since passed –
could be I knew me then
was come the road
would take me home –
across these fields again
tornadoday 