Suheir Hammad Lyrics - Singles - Break Clustered

All holy history banned 

Unwritten books predicted the future; projected the past 

But my head unwraps around on what appears limitless 

Men created violence 

Who's son shall it be? 

Which male will parish a new day? 

Our boys' deaths galvanized 

We cherish corpses 

We mourn women, complicated 

Bitches get beat daily, profits made, prophets ignored 

Worn and tooth and amo, salted, lemon childhoods 

All colors run, none of us solid 

Don't look for shadow behind me 

I carry it within 

I live cycles of light and darkness 

Rhythm is half silence, I see now 

I never was one or the other 

Sickness, health, tender, violence 

I think now I never was pure 

Before form I was storm 

Blind, ignorant, still am 

Humanity contracted itself blind, malignant 

I never was pure 

Girl spoiled before ripen 

Language can't math me 

I experience exponentially 

Everything is everything 

One woman looses fifteen 

Maybe twenty members of her family 

One woman looses six 

One woman looses her head 

One woman searches rubble 

One woman feeds on trash 

One woman shoots her face 

One woman shoots her husband 

One woman traps herself 

One woman gives birth to a baby 

One woman gives birth to borders 

One woman no longer believes love will ever find her 

One woman never did 

Where do refugees' hearts go? 

Broken, dissed, placed where they are not from 

Don't want to be missed 

Faced with absence 

We mourn each one 

Or we mean nothing at all 

My spine curves spiral 

Precipice running to and from human beings 

Clustered bombs left behind 

Defacto land mines 

A smoldering grief 

Harvest, contaminated tobacco 

Harvest bombs 

Harvest baby teeth 

Harvest palms, smoke 

Harvest witness 

Smoke resolution 

Smoke salvation 

Smoke redemption 

Smoke breath 

Do not fear what has blown up 

If you must 

Fear the un-exploded.