POEM: THIS IS DEDICATED

photo by Alex Lear

 

 

this is dedicated

 

 

to the one

to the one ness,

to the all

to the all us,

to the creation and catapulting seed

to the beginning and brilliant continuance

to the suffering and feeling and crossings

         in the dark

to the watertorture, the shocking endless

         a pain and conflict we endured

         we endured in these last days and times

         before Black rebeginnings

to the oh

to the ah

to the

to the ancestors and the ancients

to the peace eye calm sensual

to the war eye shining serious

to the love eye crystal clear on us selves

         the righteous sightings of ex

         slaves surging self-consciously

         into sunlit sovereignty

to the eye and to the ear

         and the sounds, the sounds we

         music mighty rhythm thumping

         keeping us moving

         together, all us on the one

to the love, the tremble, the current, the connection

         and Black blessings of

         ebony  womb man flesh

to the saving and sending of something else west

         this is dedicated to the hook up

         and hipness of new afrikan

         space aspirations

to Black people

to Black, to people

to a Black a people

to the on time thought and taste

         that we are really one,

         really, really, really all one

to those who read this poem

         and wonder on this planet

         and want for this truth touch

         in time vector now

to all the things we are

         we ain’t and hey, yes,

         ought to be

         this is very humbly dedicated

to the one

         one love

         one heart

         one people

         one struggle

         this is dedicated

to all our triune wholeness

to those a been here

to those a here now and most certainly

to those a yet to arise and get

         get hopefully more than we

         way more than we got

         more than we are getting

         this is dedicated

to your momma and my mama

         and all the soft screaming

         and pleasure pain it took

         to get and keep us here

         don’t hurt our space

         don’t hurt

         don’t hurt our space

         be beautiful keepers of the sun

         be beautiful, keep the sun, keep us, love

         be husbands to life

         be break away from zoo madness, plastic

         and petroleum food and sexual molesters of life

         don’t hurt, don’t throw, no don’t

         please don’t throw this

         our love away

         this is dedicated

to your old man and my old man

         and all the weird walks

         we and they took

         and had to take

         still walking, still taking some shit

         somewhere, ready for the new music, and

         can play it yeah, can play it,

         will play it, just need some instruments

         this is dedicated

to the only one something that means much

to the highest flesh order in the universe

to the abruptly interrupted but will be continued

         golden social age of small circle get togethers

         and ancient communal societies updated

to the knowledge that though there will never

         be another you, we are going to make it

to the climb

to the getting up when we fall or temporarily fail

to the return

to the endless search to always make and leave

life better and more beautiful than when we arrived

to the one, again it must be said,

to the one, there is no other higher order

to the one we are

to the one we all are

to the one

         this is dedicated

to the one i

to the one

to the one i and i

to the one

         this is dedicated

to my people

         the one i love

 

 

—kalamu ya salaam