10 Things
Titilope Sonuga
3:36In the beginning there was only us Before light was first spoken we existed In the moments before Genesis Before the taste of forbidden fruit A speck of dust to ignite generations And we know this darkness well We move through it with the speed of love or light Your ribs a creation blueprint beneath my fingers Your mouth a holy place Tracing a thousand amens along my spine And you unearth me like ancient scripture Travel over me a pilgrimage Each heartbeat is prophecy And there are revelations here There is gospel nestled in your palms Psalms, proverbs, parables in the warmth of your breath We are a creation story A testament to weathering storms two by two The audacity to walk on water Take down giants And I only need look at the miracles unfolding in your smile The promise of resurrection on your lips to remember There is salvation in a kiss There are small mercies in a pulse And they will call this blasphemy Say we spit in the face of holiness the way we worship But there is no greater proof of God than this There is no closer to divine than us We are the Lazarus rise of a stack of bones There are red seas parting in our veins And we are lights at the frequency of everything