Diasporan Blues

Another immigrant
washing away leftovers from plates
He might have flown over the seas
or she, across the harsh desert
Over and across, don’t matter
Tall fences blocking aliens away
Long stretched out rivers.

We are all the same,
uniquely shaded for the sun
We of the gun-shaped origins,
eyes all crisp with dimly lit hope
Look into these voided pupils
Past these migrated dreams
Through these walls of memories
where our dead loved ones lay still
There, we of the African beginnings are stricken to forever hymn
an ancestral continental song called
“another day to build and create.”

The Realization of a Contemporary African

Awaken sleeping wonderers

The monster’s here for your sin

Hear his roar, his rumble

Your days of searching

has brought your demise

An end to your long suffering

 

Searching through Modernization

I seek for answers

Left and right

Calling on God

Only the night responds

I need faith

Tired of being real

Tired of being sane

in this blood soaked world

 

Where is my own receipt?

The one that says I’m free: paid for

 

The stress’s rising

Covering every corner I find

Swell, swell

I’m on the move

The dose I need

always seems further when I reach

Expanding with my turmoil

 

Final Stretch

I wonder, I wonder

Dreaming of my tomorrow

Day’s race ahead

Leaving me behind

With a gift lacking instructions

 

Interlude:

Tell mama

I’ll see her

When the rain has stopped

Tell mama

I’ll see her

When the rage has cleared

Tell mama

I’ll come back home

When the storm’s over

 

The Realization of a Champion

The sweet taste of victory

Has me glorified in this era

Sanctified from the noise of chaos

Alive in Zion, above the sun

Invincible with my new found energy