Into the Break

family building emergency shelter from rocks

Mother, grab the orphan babe.
Brother, friend the widow.
Father, to arms, sister to bread.
Put the yoke on your back,
Steady the cripple,
Sleep where you can, work till you fall.
Into the break!

Who owed us have fled.
Who hate us have wreaked through
And now we remain.
Into the break!

Tomorrow little brother will play.
Today he gathers rocks.
Big brother, stack’em one on top the other.
Shelter for the night, the hour.
Little sister, cry softly, tears for us who can’t spare’em now.
Big sister, sing loud, to courage us.

Cousins: weave, sew, clothe.
Cousins: build, hunt, feed.
Into the break.
Into the break.
Into the break.