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A Witch's Letter to God

from Strange Little Smile by Rosi Lalor

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A WITCH'S LETTER TO GOD. It seems almost trendy to call yourself a witch these days, which overall I take to be a good sign. As Lisa Lister points out in her book 'Witch', to reclaim that word (is to an invoke an encounter with 'the witch wound', and that work is not for the fainthearted. In 'My Grandmother's Hands', Resmaa Menakem traces the epigenetic roots of the brutality inflicted on slaves in the U.S. back to the persecution of European women during the witch hunts, where between 35,000 - 100,000 'witches' were executed. The trauma that was imprinted on the bodies and minds of the victims and perpetrators, still has strong reverberations today. For many of the women I know, cellular memories of persecution often show up as a constriction in their throats or inexplicable terror when it comes to speaking, or singing, their truth publicly.

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Dear God, how the wind has changed!
It blows through me, it doesn't blow me away
I'm like one of those old stone walls
covered in moss and the memory of storms

Oh how I missed you! But you were never gone
It was the rituals, the stories and the songs
It was the elders who could recognise and guide me
who could notice I was lost then come and find me

Never mind, you're here with me now and I know what I am
I'm out of the fire and I can handle the frying pan
and every day a new weird sister comes to my door
and the tears pour

She asks me why it had to be so hard
and I can't read that kind of answer in the cards
I have to hold her 'til she's calm enough to feel you
'til she can breathe through the pain and it reveals you

Then we get to work hamonising the ley lines
releasing all the bodies still trapped
underneath the gaze of a monster
who does not like the way we laugh

And we are asking for each other's forgiveness
'cause we made our own mistakes
the journey of the soul is a long one
and it will do whatever it takes
to find out that brave is what it is
and cruel is what it's not
like waking from a dream we remember
what you never once forgot

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from Strange Little Smile, released July 8, 2021

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Rosi Lalor Cork, Ireland

Rosi Lalor grew up in Liverpool and now lives in County Cork. She is a storyteller and mystic at heart, with a large dose of clown thrown into the cauldron. Her song-craft is a satisfying process of resolving inner conflicts. Strange Little Smile is her second album, Flowers For The Living (available on itunes & Spotify) is her first. ... more

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