Heaven For Me Lyrics

Heaven for me will be seeing my mother happy

And my father in his right mind

Healthy, confident

And my grandma will want the memories of her life

Here, she doesn't want to give them back

Still, she can't remember the sad ways she's been

The poetry now, the family now, the joy now is too loud

Having to leave her home to exist within small corners of white men's worlds

She cannot remember that

But the smile of her first born, yes

That's here

And me? I have my father to my right and my mother to my left

I turn to greet them both & they send something back

To me that peace could only hope for

And me either… I cannot remember the sad ways that I have been

The way language works here makes Rumi's verses seem like child's play

And there is no conversing how we once knew

We only quietly convey the inner workings of our hearts

And we cannot remember the sad ways we've been

Only grandma's first born's smile is somewhere on our faces