These Poems

These poems
they are things to do
in the dark
reaching for you
whoever you are
and
are you ready?

These words
they are stones in the water
running away

These skeletal lines
they are desperate arms
for my my longing and love.

I am a stranger
learning to worship
the strangers around me

whoever you are
whoever I may become.

~ June Jordan (American, 1936-2002)