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Psalm For Antigone

from The Awakening by Dudley Benson

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Antigone, I miss you
Keeper of Memory walk with me
Across these hills
Over these old, old hills

It’s strange to see you now
No different than before
While I, like the plains below grow slow
With years gone by
I grow with years gone by

I remember your hands deep in the earth
Your life pushed into the soil
To grow us a native tree
Our garden on Huntsbury

And I recall you waking us on a night in spring
To bring us guests to the birth
Of a beautiful family
A kid to hold gently

I still can smell the pine on wind and history
I feel them like past generations
Dictating the life I lead
In a pattern, cartography

The blood cells I am, each fibre that I am
Was passed through you into me
To lock us magically
In genealogy

So, please Antigone, hear me and hear my psalms
Designed to lift those golden years
And let them finally pass
Give me rest at last, and gather no more dust

Don’t wash out the brains, the nerves, the veins
We’re not dust and we’re not clay

These bones I found in a cave, the Fates to save
The remains of my age

The wool they spun was run too young
And it’s done
In chance we have but one

And though the coin’s been tossed
And river crossed
I am the eldest son

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from The Awakening, released March 10, 2008

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Dudley Benson Dunedin, New Zealand

I'm a queer independent artist based in Dunedin, New Zealand. I make music about nature and nationhood. Thanks for listening!

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