Swamp Gospel:

We wander through the fog,
through he 'spirits of the night'.
Rises like 'incense of the earth'
while we try to make sense of this life.

See that tennis court, those manicured lawns?
That used to be a food bowl,
but now it's gone.
And I'm homesick,
calling out like this
for something that I never knew but know I miss.

Secret, sacred places
We've covered up
Wetland traces
sing that swamp gospel loud.

Intricate biophonies
spill onto the street
underneath the road rivers,
living waters seep

See that tennis court, those manicured lawns?
That used to be a food bowl,
but now it's gone.
And I'm homesick,
calling out like this
for something that I never knew but know I miss.

Secret, sacred places
We've covered up
Wetland traces
sing that swamp gospel loud.

Swamp Gospel

when the one who you used to run to - into arms that held history and eternity, within their being - is no longer within your reach - it gets confusing, you start deluding, even refuting the truth that its over. in every cell he held information of my love, and every atom sang the proofs of his love.

when the 1 who

simplesimplesimple bread n butter n a glass of water

Show

hollow colloquial
we calling out cantankerous
collusions 

secret agents of flagrant
philosophies 
and thoughts that
bubble boil down beneath ur street
underneath ya feet
underneath ya breath

yep

cinematic emphatic factual information
straight from the heart
it projects so much unrest
oh whatta mess we’ve made

jus actin as a mouthpiece
trumpet call to ya’ll
cuz 
greed can grow to a black hole
before ya know, u know 
ya know?

magpie fly 
black and white into the blue


magpie (monk)

warm like ocean calm me down
call like lightning tonight
high again
in the bed alone on a conscious zone til the candles burn out
high again
in the world alone but connected so
we'll breathe til we burn out


call like lightning

i went so long without ya love - there formed a cave,
a hollowness, a space for us, a sacred place. 
i never even knew that i would love to speak ya name,
yours and mine could intertwine - thats a fate we could claim.

in the dark you spoke those words,
unravel and provoke.

so refreshed as i opened up my chest, 
grew out from camouflage,
water lilies sprout from the mirage, 
i take a dip - with silence on my lips,
in your body of water,
hold your hand son of a daughter,
in the morning the sky projected on your wall,
was it any less real?
what will cushion my fall?
clouds of pillow and willow whispering, lost as we trek through landscape of the skin.

in the stillness of the night there's whispers of prayer,
calls that yearn for company - they float upon the air,
i never even knew that loneliness had a place,
and echo from a dream arrived and disclosed your name.

in the dark you spoke...


Went So Long

made day after the passing of Dj Rashad

...

Whatcha gonna do when you're holding on to the very last breath before it leaves you?
Hold on, hold tight, hold on, hold on
What you gonna think when before your eyes, your soul shakes with a flashing light
Hold tight, whole life, life, hold tight, whole life

Tek life, give life, 1 + 1 can make life, 
thru them wing flight
moving on toward the light...

whatcha gonna do ...

''cause them to enter the garden of happiness, cleanse them with the most pure water and grant them to behold - Thy splendours on the loftiest mount...''

all hail haile selassie, buddha, krishna, le atua, the truth -
nguzunguzu - prow navigate ancient canoe,
all hail rivers that mouth the meeting of the sea
underground aquifer
footprint lake is glistening
all hail



Tek Life

every minute
expands
endlessly
into oblivion
of uncertainty

every second
echoes in my chest
I’m losing u over time
to an emptiness

quick get out the way
of the ricochet
that back and forth 
between 
hopelessness n hope 
I’m bouncing off the walls
I’m losing my mind

every day 
my heart tells me the truth
how u deserved so much more
than what i gave to u

every atom
every part me
wants to heal ur pain
please forgive me
(i wanna heal ur pain)
please forgive me
im so sorry


i have a seed 
planted in my heart
underneath the dark
waiting there

i water it
and sing it songs
try to coax it out with the love i know
with ur love i know
i knew so well
sometimes it shows
when we look in
to each others
eyes and for a moment
i feel the sun
it feels so pure
it is the love
the love i know
the love i love
ur love i love

ricochet

seismographs

some people are sensitive like seismographs
they record every tremble
they feel imbalances in those around them

if there is conflict, they breathe it in
and hold their breath
hoping they can digest it
let it out, let it out, let it out, 
it’s not your burden alone, it’s not your burden alone

exhale let it out

when they feel vulnerable
be gentle with them
be mild as milk when you speak with them

if you can see they're fragile
be brave and shelter them

somedays i am protected, some days i protect
some days you are protected, some days you protect

let it out
exhale

if you can see they're fragile
be brave and shelter them
somedays i am protected, some days you protect
some days you are protected, some days i protect

exhale
let it out

seismographs

found on hard drive - dated april 2014

made the day after a lonely club night. walking round connections missing some 1. when the smoke from the smoke machine gets in ur eye. 

lonely in the club

when bodies (human, animal or mineral) are desired and seen as things to b conquered...nope.

imagining invitation to destruction...nope. 

seduced by ur own unfettered desire. 

if u want it
u got it
name it
take it
stake your claim

aint no shame cuz i gotta get mine
why u standing on the wall?
I'm the one...

get me bodied
want my body




get me bodied (colonisation vibes)

can we just get by,
by ourselves? now tell me why
we're so isolated from each other
we should act with love for one another

i can see the waves in the patterns on the dress that u wear,
and i can see nobility in the way that u care,
and we will meet on the beach in the dark of the night,
let the stars multiply til the sky turns pure white,
there washes in a breeze
its calling us
to eternity

eternity

HEADPHONES. . . ? 

i was just goin about my day
when outta no where
thoughts of u rain down
outta no where
i start missing u
i was goin about my day

got nothin to smoke 
to distract me tonight
so i think i just might
take a litle day dream
and remember us again
i ain't scared no more
it doesn't hurt like before

i pushed all the feelings
like a curtain on the railings
closed the chapter
erased ever after
but tonight i'm gonna reminisce 
bout ya skin and how we used to kiss

go frank go. thank u 4 channel orange. 

goin bout my day (thinkin bout you cover)

pinball wormhole
thru the looking glass
blue moon hidden in my stash
ain't impossible to understand
take a toke and pass it with the left hand
and if i was cremated, transform, re-instated,
reborn, re-inflated, ignored, hot-potated, 
i'd be the same way as i am
so take a listen now
and take my hand
and let's go. 



dash

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