Women of valor/call the role/aunts godmothers cousins teachers pastors friends sisters sisters mothering in all your ways/I remember you/honor you/in the invisible world/ honor your name as blessing/in the vale of tears and delight/hold you before generations/cry out/see the beauty and the power/women of valor/these are the ones/keeping the lamp shining bright/until we get home

There is a certain look of love/I have seen it survive calamity/seen it lie nascent in the dark/seen it refuse to die in the face of hopelessness/felt its power in whispered testimonial at the maw of transit/there is a certain look to that love/ stronger than any curve or cut in this life/or in that dying