Three Queens

Sink into your mother's arms

The womb that gave you birth

Let her take your secrets back and lay them in the earth

Let her take you in her arms

Let her take you home

Leave to her the gifts she gave of flesh and breath and bone

Sink into your lover's arms

The womb that made you whole

Let her waters slake the thirst you carry in your soul

Let her take you in her arms

Let her take you home

Leave to her the dreams you made of honours, steel, and stone

Sink into your mother's arms

Sink into your lover's arms

Sink into your sister's arms

Sink into your sister's arms

The womb you need not know

Let her fire consume the frame of what you were before

Let her take you in her arms

Let her take you home

Leave to her the mysteries of maiden, mother, crone

Sink into your mother's arms