2020 Freestyle with new guitar

Poem: 

Owning your own is akin to a throne, 
With the kingdom embodied in your actions 
Royalty is therefore a routine.

Reflected from the tongue to habits imprinted, 
Both intentionally aggressive and timid. 
Never a tinge or a tangent on a time line
As what you're building, will be worth a life time. 

All depends on what you decide to do, 
Be relentless in your pursuit 
As your palace is your perspective, 
Your view depends on you, 
The courts decide whom they want viewed. 

Your choice is your crown, 
Clown around or 
make your worth one that can never be found.  

All depends on what choices, 
you decide to make now. 

So are you ready, 
to be crowned. 


About: Owning yourself, which is the first throne and the only table you really and truly get to own.

Crowning (Spoken Word)

Poem: 

How do you console someone when they feel like they've been played?

How do you tell someone, there'll be a better day,
after they've prayed for months, 
asking for a few minutes with their beloved. 

How do you tell someone to remain strong,
While they're struggling to recover, 
Seeing loss lingering in tingling fingers, 
leading to a lack of oxygen in their lungs. 

Their tongue tasered, 
Their knees trembling, 
their ankles invisible, 
At this point, 
Tripping is inevitable. 

Is there a cure, 
a remedy for a collapsed conscious, 
for a spirit that's unavailable, 
Because, right now, 
it just feels unattainable. 

(Pause) 

Look, I know, everyone's saying that I need time to heal, time to grow,
I know that I've said the same,  
But the healing, 
The healing is taking too slow. 

This isn't growth, I'm lost, 
I don't know what to do. 
 
Truthfully, I miss you. 

(Beat)

What am I supposed to do, 
When I don't want to continue? 

How do I do better,
when it hurts to admit the truth,
that I'm talking to an empty chair. 

About: An interpolation of Stings Empty Chair song. 

The inspiration came after watching the songwriters Hollywood Round Table with Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and Sting. In that roundtable episode, Sting revealed what the inspiration for his song was. 

Then in 2023, the artist Siya of Roots and Love asked if I could make poems in relation to the theme of grief and this poem was one of the poems that I sent. I even have the concept for a video already ready, so let's see how that goes and workouts.

Empty Chair (Spoken word)

A freestyle, using a variation of the E, D, G major and E minor chords. 

2023 Freestyle: EDGE (Guitar)

Who knows, we might make this into a song as a trio for Roots and Love. Love you both my brothers.

Jamming with Siyabonga

(((Be demo)))

Sleepwalker

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

https://soundcloud.com/maru_desoul

(((Be demo)))

Alighieri

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