Remember Me

by Kohenet Riv Shapiro

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Part of "fragments", an ongoing multimedia ancestral storytelling project
rivshapiro.com/fragments

Image: Ruth Harris, my great-great-aunt and namesake, the storekeeper of my family

lyrics

She was flyin’ high and she could not see a way of coming down
All the colors flying past her eyes and she wondered how they’d sound
From the tongue of her great-great-grandmothers
In her dreams where they still talked to her
Singin’ songs of the old land

Waiting for a wind to float by any place that felt like home
Maybe someone there could tell her why she ever had to roam
Just waiting to come home
Always walking, walking home
Into her dreams, where she could hear them say

Remember me, remember me…

What to make of a wish and a whirl upon the wind?
How to land it in the body, and where to begin
To untangle the knots of suffering
From the years of endless wandering
Crying out into the past -

Sing me in your wildest dreams…
(Remember me…)

That was long ago, before she knew she was a seed
Let the rain carry her down, and let the soil feed
The dreams that were still inside of her and the strength they could not take from her
It was written in her bones yeah

Now they say that if you listen as you walk among the trees
You can hear her whisper songs that float upon the breeze
Of the ones who paved the way for you
And those to come who’ll pull you through
This is the only breath we ever knew

Sing me…
Remember me…