We build altars

We build altars

We build altars
with hands and found things
on bended knees
crooked spines aligned and alighted on
the central objects of our affectations

we build altars
to send to the heavens
a cosmic email
a twit-proof objective point
signals spirals circles
anointed anointing
we are here
we hear

we build altars
and with closed lips
send our prayers
amens and hallelujias
to refocus
on our centers

we build altars
so that we can connect once again
to the sacred
to the truth that gives us
our mission
one meaning
the heart to carry forward
in a dessert of pain
silent yet never silenced
we build our altars