RAIN CLOUDS

life is not a straight line
this they said

suspect bends....
.... unscrupulous speed bumps
jolt you into unwelcome awakeness
sobriety regained!

am a brother unto the night
a sailor's lighthouse
in a turbulent sea

you're a sister in distant lands
asleep when i wake
awake when i sleep
never give up

distance is the road travelled
not the journey,
really

signs i missed
of gathering cumulonimbus
so here i am
drenched in mournful wetness
of scattered visions
a mission so aborted

you were
just but a sister in distant lands
asleep when i wake
awake when i sleep
so never give up

© October 2011 

ESCAPE

you sleep. i stare
i smile. you moan
outside, the night hisses by


steadily
the autumn rain drops
softly pattering upon the windowsill

down below,
Westcott Street clears

yet you know
that here with me
you are in a safer place

© October 2011

YOU ARE THE ONE

we rise and we fall
we sing and we cheer
we laugh as we cry
we shoot and we miss

the rains never stop coming
the dust never really settles
the drumbeats of change are late
everywhere we search for the One

what if we saw we as the One
and stopped the futile search
for the One

what if we chose
to be the change,
that spark of brilliant humanity
we so passionately envision
..... and desire

what if we stopped searching away
and turned
for a moment,
to us

what if we found
we are the One
we've been waiting for
searching for
longing for

life happens

let the rains stop
let the dust settle
let us fall to rise
.....never fail to rise
let the tears and the laughter mingle
because you are the one you've been waiting for

change happens

© October 2011

DARK TESTAMENTS

Even though I saw you cry

Wiping tears of great loss

Even though around you

Your feet wobbled

And the earth sunk

You must not cry

For you were among them!

Among those who went

To bed with the sun

While the wind slept in the horizon

Among those who sneaked out of Nyayo I

Hidden by the infancy of a new day

When the blades of grass

Still lay in conjugation

With the dews of yesternight!

You knew Brother,

You knew that chics must play

And anxious thighs lay

In wait for nomadic shafts

You knew that chics must play

Yet you joined the horses in their bay

To the rhymes of moral decadence you swayed..

And now,

Caught in the web of dark passions

You ask:

Which way shall I go?

Which way?

You will grope in the night

Lost among thickets of blind emotions

You will tread decades of broken promises

Your conscience craving redemption

You will search in the dim groves

Where gods no longer resided,

Gods who served REDEMPTION.

© October 2011

ICE BERG

As blows the wind upon land

Sweeping all in its wake

Thus flees the glory of this world

In your days take heed brethren

In totality to live right

Right and nice

For the melting ice

Of wealth and trappings

Beneath your sacred feet

May one day give way

And carry the weight

Of all possessions

Loved and cherished

From the poles of plenty

Percolating across

The tropics of scarcity

Leaving you vain

Helpless in the face

Of howling storms of life

This life

Without shelter, and naked

Alone

         In

           The

                Rain!

© October 2011