Telling My Sister I Love Her

What can blood mean to me when I never see her When she's never here When she's never with me And I can only stop this, can only clot this bleeding When the bones of her memory strike back Strike a body so close to ours that I can almost believe it When we danced together in the bay of childhood The swooning kilt of a swaying love That only we as one as two as together As two sisters could create And though we were four and trapped on this bare soil The soil of a country that hates us The country that hates everything it gives us We can can pull ourselves along Pooling forth our pictures of being in a dream of sisterhood That is what this is We are sisters She is my sister We are the whole world in two hands We are not alone