Gina Loring - Walking Prayers lyrics

We are Walking Prayers Angels leave love letters in our palms Our hands speak Scripture We are Life Givers meant for Sacred Work We build bodies in our bodies Babies born of our daydreams who will one day tell our stories We tend to them in back seats and bathroom stalls Lullabies and love hymns, we pray over them "May they be safe, may they be strong May they be safe, may they be strong" This is our song Our Mother, Sister, Daughter, Woman, Warrior song We wear wounded hearts like badges of courage Carrying the weight of the world on each shoulder Collecting lessons in battle scars We are Peace Treaties Our hips the framework for families The foundation for Gods magic takes tangible form Future generations depend on the resilience of our bodies And what will we tell them When boys owning tree houses grow up to be boys owning governments Boys Boys who have forgotten their first home was their Mothers womb Took their first breath in the embrace of Her Arms We must remind them From our Breasts you were fed, We are Shelter, We are Vessel Our Wombs are Holy Ground So violating a Woman is a violation against God A sin against yourself, Karmic Suicide We are Sacred Geometry, Divine Pyramids and Astrology Not to be thrown away like pearls to swine Meant to be honored not objectified We were not always swayed by billboards beckoning from boulevard rooftops Photo shopped glam shots, night clubs, and hot spots Skylines laced with man-made messages Morphing our self-images into warped anorexic fantasies A gender biased consumer agenda has us grooming for Days Eyebrows threaded, make-up applied, hair done, legs shaved, bikini waxed, Push-up bra, high heels intact, and we will never get those hours back Our reflection is not in red-carpet, main-street, movie stars It is in the Night Sky The Moon's soft mirror glows somewhere just past Mars Woman are the Heart Beat of the World We are Regal We are Legacy Mary brought Jesus through Jochebed brought Moses through Aminah brought Muhammad through Isis brought Horus through Harriet Tubman brought hundreds through We are Warriors Our love is infinite Our voices are made of light Our hearts, our harbor, Our songs far and long We are every continent, every smoke signal and psalm, Every prayer, every element, Day and Night We are Earth, Air, Water, Sunlight Let us celebrate ourselves Be our own heroes Rewrite the fairy tales So Sleeping Beauty wakes her own damn self-up, Slays the dragon, looks at herself in the mirror and says "Princess, I found you!"