Readying To Rise - Esperanza Spalding

What comes when you rise from the middle

Then step up and ride the comet

What comes when you rise from the middle

Then step up and ride the comet

You’ve figured out so much up there

On your own now let us step in

The bottom half that moves you round the world

The legs and orbit of your dream are vast

You spot it then just watch it pass

Psst, psst, down here

We remember everything you’ve come through

And we’re readying to rise you

There’s a new modality of love to be dis-covered

What are you waiting for?

We’re dangled or crossed

Beneath you like we’re worthless

While you work away

We’re bent or locked still

Listening to tapping digits

We too must uphold, so holy

And what’s great about them?

Everything they’ve ever carried

They’ve put down and left somewhere

At best to maybe someday be re-found

We work the largest muscle groups

And come up against sit bones

What makes you so tired?

When we’re readying to rise?

Worrying and forgetting where you were headed

Even with your thoughts distracted, we’ll get there walking

We know you and why you never

See us or get to know us

And on airplanes we have no space

Because it is presumed we have no insights

Or senses that contribute to our goals

Our language is the memory of everywhere you’ve been

In usefulness we preach

And you may refer to us whenever you are lost, or stuck

Or doubting will with its brain-based complexities

We’ve been through it all with you

And do our best to move you

With dual reminders of your progress

And how you must walk the distance ahead

What you are facing now may appear to be more

Of the same

But we are readying to rise you

To another plane of existence

That comes when you rise from the middle

Then step up and ride the comet

That comes when you rise from the middle

Then step up and ride the comet