Gold Dust Liturgy

Verse

Basin water swirling

Suds like smoke on my palms

Washing line snapping rhythm

The wind already knows the psalm

Mielie dust in sunlight

Drifting soft past the fence

Grandmother hums in the courtyard

Still making perfect sense

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel the floor humming

Under the beat of the wash

Something holy is coming

Wearing the dust like gold

Chorus

Gold dust liturgy

Rising off my skin

Gold dust liturgy

Let the dance begin

Gold dust liturgy

Every breath a hymn

Gold dust liturgy

This is worship within

Verse

Corrugated shadows

Stretching long on the ground

Soap suds catch the morning

Turn to halos around

Aunties trading harmonies

Basins keeping the time

Every scrub becomes a verse

Every fold becomes a rhyme

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel the floor humming

Under the beat of the wash

Something holy is coming

Wearing the dust like gold

Chorus

Gold dust liturgy

Rising off my skin

Gold dust liturgy

Let the dance begin

Gold dust liturgy

Every breath a hymn

Gold dust liturgy

This is worship within

Bridge

I carry her hands in my knuckles

Her breath in the steam I exhale

No pulpit but this concrete courtyard

No scripture but sweat on my nails

Every basin becomes an altar

Every child a candle unlit

This is how we stay unbroken

This is how the dust stays lit

Chorus

Gold dust liturgy

Rising off my skin

Gold dust liturgy

Let the dance begin

Gold dust liturgy

Every breath a hymn

Gold dust liturgy

This is worship within