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Girl sitting alone eating her lunch
No friends to laugh about the misery
She says she’s content
Girl sitting with a book in hand
Words to her eyes
Letters full with fantasy
No body to relate with
No lover to quench the burning desire
Still she says she’s content
That’s all she needs, herself
Alone with her thoughts
Submerged in a merry-go-round time

Suddenly, it’s destroyed
Suddenly, her moment of seclusion is gone
The boy sitting with himself, sees her
And all dreams becomes reality
Through the tunnel
Their moment arrives

The girl sitting eating lunch
The boy smiling holding her hands
Alone together
Suddenly, so suddenly
It’s two
Two made whole
Two to share the burden of life

For seasons, days and nights
They walked through the desert
With heat killing heart
Kings with plants and dust as clothes
Clouds high above
With a vessel leading the way
Their hope was to arrive
But along the way
Some lost their eyes
Pursuing the ways of gold
Others left with a head
Snatched away to a distant road
One filled with vengeful snakes
Where the beast of the sand roamed
Despair, confusing all around
The vessel seeing all
Left the people
To seek guidance
Generations passed still no sight
So the people made names and called things life
Blood spilling, sibling killing
The truth became a fable
Hundreds and more moons past
And the darkened had seen enough
With heaviness on back they dropped their bags
And laid on the ground
Hoping to find sleep
In the desert flowing with milk
They rest, we rest
Waiting foolishly for the vessel to return
Forgetting the vessel had become a gift
As we breathe, we excel
We must remember the dust that our fathers wore
And mothers sang about
Wake up! Sleeping sons of Jacob
Awaken the giant in you
The spirit destined for greatness
Leave the bitter twisted books
And walk back onto to the land of promise

Back and forth
Side to side
The force is pushed around
From the hands of wealth
To the fore bearer of soul
Though the mighty have little
The little is in the making
Every build, every mold
Makes the journey bearable

As the moon dapples
The wind throws away its weight
And the people smile
With the coolness
They ride through the night
Some on trains,
Others in hearts
Shaking, moving
Orchestrating their paths with a wand and a voice
As their faces all glitter in this rhythmic night
They celebrate, jubilating
Beautiful steps they make, but hauntingly ever so warm

Standing amongst the crowd
Distinguish yourself from the rest
Vibe and free your spirit
Hang up the bad talking
Naysayers lay waiting
For you to fall
Though they forget
Nothing can stop you from elevating to the skies

The world goes crumbling
But you go climbing
Time to make time
Cos karma lays awaiting
For you to grab
So kill it
Believe it
Cos nothing in this world
Can negate the good in you
Nothing in this fake world
Can shift the ground you stand on you
Believe it
Sing it
Nothing can stop you
You, yes you

It seems like when the wind falls
The ground collides
Meshing together to form a sequence
But it’s all a dream
When paths cross
Like eternity we seem to forget our past
In our time, we thirst for a touch
Gathering moments, sparkles they are
Faces full of smiles, forming a crying gong
Two hoping to connect
Relieving their life before the end
These two go on
Through the phases with a hold
They overcome and fight
Breaking their limbs
Crawling when hearts shatter
To pieces on ground
Guess our ways are the same
Too alike, but needed
In transgressions we’ll find redemption

It’s all in the blood
Pushed into the ring
Sweat pouring, jabs flung out
In a circle of hate
There’s a divide
In the eyes, when we look
There’s a union in the color
But why the confusion brother?
When there’s a reunion awaiting
Our cups have runneth over
Still the bridge is broken
As we walk, our sorrows pile up
Boxed into a circle
A ring of fire
Can’t you see drift?
The rift placed on us

Lately, the vex has subsided
Our time, to move out from the ring
Put down our gloves
In comfort, we’ll find the courage
In community, we’ll find the urge
To move on, past the vices that push us against each other

I play the lottery
Never lucky, as my one and two’s vanishes
There into the production of mastered numbers
Another card, same story
I cringed the paper, free throw into the garbage bin
Walking on, thinking why I’m so unworthy
To receive the millions, my wants and desires
Nothing left but my empty pocket

The man on the street saw me
He was called the animal, I think
I wonder who looked at him and give him his name
Was it because of his worn out clothes
Or maybe his overgrown beard?
But in reality, hair is hair, as skin is to skin
He met me, looked at me
Saw me at my down times
With a voice, he asked “I need a smoke”
I asked why?
“My lungs need cleansing from the dirt,” he replies
“Here, take this pack,” I say
He says thanks and says
“Give me a flash light”
I ask why
“Cos I need the light to move through these tunnels”
“Here you go, take this flash light”
He smiles, and tells me I’m a good man
“How do you know? I have sin on my clothes
Don’t you see them?”
I see them, all of them, he says
But I also see your soul
That which you have repaired
With light, you cleansed your mind
Placed your soul in a zen of peace
“I don’t understand,” I tell him
You will one day

He never repaid me
I never saw the animal again
But I remember his words
I soaked it into my voice
In peace, I found those one or two’s
Not in papers
In my quest to live and find his words
The one he gave to me
So I say to myself
My luck has runneth over
For my faith is all I need
To receive, I will give back these ones or two’s
To the hands of lives who thirst
Not to systems that eat and never purge back soul

In my mind
I see the road
That leads back to the low cut houses
These shapes form a circle
Around, around they go
With people sitting on their front ends
Laughing, telling jokes
As the night passes through
The peace of a child plays on

In my mind
I wait for the day
When I will return
As a man with the smile of child

Once again
I will return back there
With the freshness of youth
Kicking playing along with the sand
Bananas trees all around
Mangoes fruits all falling down

Birds tuning on till they find their voices
It remains settled, my childhood memories
All in my mind, as the moonlight dapples on the zincs of barnawa