Purify

Photo by Jill Wellington: https://www.pexels.com/photo/lady-in-beach-silhouette-during-daytime-photography-40192/

Mother, I am home, 
at long last, I am finally here, 
it’s been fifteen summers long,
since my feet kissed the earth 
since I bathed in your cosmic light 
since I felt your embrace.

Mother, I revere you—
you are the one who gave me life,
the one who made me in your image,
whose face I see in every woman,
in life itself. 

Mother, I am here now—
to inherit the earth, 
to speak the language
of our people 
of time, of present, 
of past and future, 
of love.