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What is the meaning of a laying on of hands poem by ntozake shange
Waz missing something
Something so important Something promised A laying on of hands Fingers near my forehead Strong Cool Moving Making me whole Sense pure All the gods coming into me Laying me open to myself I waz missing something Something promised Something free A laying on of hands I know bout/layin on bodies/layin out of man Bringin him alla my fleshy self & some of my pleasure Being taken full eager wet like I get sometimes I waz missing something A laying on of hands Not a man Laying on Not my mama/holdin me tight/sayin I'm laways going to be her girl Not a laying on of bosom and womb A laying on of hands The holiness of myself released I sat up one night walking a boardin house Screamin/cryin/the ghost of another woman Who waz missing what I waz missing I wanted to jump up out of my bones & be done wit myself Leave me alone & go on in the wind It waz too much I fell into a numbness Until the only tree I cd see Took me up in her branches Held me in the breeze Made me dawn dew That chill at daybreak The sun wrapped me up swingin rose light everywhere The sky laid over me like a million men I waz cold/i waz burning up/a child & endlessly weavin garments for the moon Wit my tears I found god in myself & I loved her/i loved her fiercely |
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This poem is a reflection of behaviors, incidents, life circumstance, where you know you were searching for something. Trying to fill a whole within yourself through various means. The laying on of Hands is Gods hand filling that empty spot, one in which he could only fill. She ends this poem knowing that fact and living her now "whole self" we can all experience that through relationship with God.
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