Remember Who You Are
(Whispered) Down down in an earlier round
but sugar we're going down swinging ...
Thats how i declare my love
In clenched knuckles
In god like fists
Stressed
Ready to be cocked and pulled.
Stroked and bull
Shitty circumstance
and status quo
You're not a go
getter
self
starter ...
and maybe thats alright
If you're on the right team
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Well who do you play for ...
The middle is boring and stagnant babe
the ying and yang require each other
so posses all that you are.
Decide in aspirations towards transcendence ,
in your moonshine and smoke love
do you stop to consider your brainwashing and whose story
you are resurrecting? Oppression,
For those snubbing your nose in the filth of your grandparents racism
How is it that you,
Compiled, composed, constructed of the same magic that animates me
and these lips
to paint pictures on your eye lids
I see you
bits,
parts,
tucked,
hiding under badges and sheets all over america,
spitting vile as if words could keep you safe from the dismantling of
falsely earned advantage
that feels like the backs of others
beneath ignorant feet
And it is tiresome to teach
Miles back to reach
to help walk you across that bridge built by fear and indifference
that leaves my son slaughtered in the street
strewn out as his sister shackled in the seat
watching the last of her patriotic dreams
leave
down the drain
Our world is different.
And if you dont get it
I got to decide about your time or mine
Cuz my days are numbered different
lined with split second decision
acts of terrorism by those expected to serve
based in absurd paternalism
We got this!
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Fall baack.
We bold beautiful black
We built the bridge and foundation Black
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Fall back
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Over which we will overcome
We got this
My people rise
Self determining
We winning
No tries
When we building soul tribe
There is only do
This revolution lives in our pride
i yo back i hear yo cries
Your pain is my struggle once i empathize
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Bridging the gap
the tunnels between us destroyed by knowledge. power. respect. Bet
I know exactly where you coming from
Watch my back im under attack, you got my back?
i got yo back
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I got yo back said
i know exactly where you coming from
this revolution lives in our pride
i yo got back i hear yo cries
Your pain is my struggle once i empathize
Bridging the gap
the tunnels between us destroyed by
Knowledge. Power. Respect.
Bet
I know exactly where you coming from.
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And once you see self as soul
Well everyone is a soul
And once you learn to listen everyone is the guru
And once you gain self confidence, self love, self acceptance
you make space to love others in the world
And when you plant seeds of goodness,
well beauty sprouts and grows
And when you let go of assumptions you make room fi go
to learn,
less you prefer the cold.
Not that the burn is real
But it be chilly up there much too frigid for me
My fingers came here with other plans
Dandelions to baffle and fall in love over
For the chance to get lost in the craters of your freckles
Falseness of your teeth
I could run for miles in the mundane marathon we've inherited cuz its all so amazing .....
Like if you got at least some of the senses your world is out of this world Amazing
and strange and craving of beauty at every turn.
Come with me,
I'm supposed to help you fall in love with a bumble bee
To remember
We
are connected like a network of roots beneath the surface
Lurking just beneath the surface
You cant quite touch it
This thing's amazing, strange, unpredictable, deranged but Lonesome and Loving where Love means Freedom and absence of judgement
Let go
Let love
Build Esteem that doesn't break down
That doesn't break
Repunish you for your past mistakes
You are not a collection of them
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This is your dream
Take what you need
Dont allow greed to possess you
undress your spirit, forgetting how to share
GLOW
Look around
Smile
say hello
Maybe see someone you didn't know and stay present
Stay here
Stay with right now on the tips of your tongue running down your jawline in thirst for the present
It is the ultimate gift
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And in that stillness you find source
You find grace
You find fascination
Patience
Rejection of time
- A concept
Nation
- A concept
Segregation
Lifestyle hatin
Its such a waste
We should be Creatin!
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Not easy in our hate
and our energy that has no choice but to be explored and flowed back into us
So I dare you to be Love
To be in love
To breathe in live
Step in love
Move in love
See in love
Look in love
Stand in love
Its powerful
Its selfless
Its unifying
And life breathing
And revolutionary
And a me thing
Nothing without self
You got to learn go
You got to learn to not judge
You got look within
up above is too far away
You got to look within
Because up above is too far away
You Are Here
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Stay
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So be here,
Breathe here,
Love here.
Remember who you are
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Star.
"Who You Are" an evolved Free Write January 2016