walking barefoot down the streets

you take away his spirit’sability to dream!if you close his mind,you close the doorto his future!

that called light from darkness,and being from non-being.that, spent as wind,calling forth waves from oceans,calling forth land from water,blowing dry and forming.tis breath, then…calling male and female to join.calling trees and mountains to tangle.defining hill and valley,both far and near.calling forth fire from imagination,calling thought from inertness.calling music from stillness.tis breath, then…calling tribe unto tribe.creating…

on the frozen branch,i am the soft underbellyof the rabbit just caught.i am fresh trout in the skillet,and the song of the water.i am the lone staron the blackest of nights.i am the cry of the womangiving birth to the child.i am the cry of the childcoming into the world.i am the cry of the…

of all the thingsthat stand betweenme and myself!of all the fearsthat stand betweenme and you!of the weight of allthat i have done,replace it with the freedomof all that i’ve given….take away the wantsthat have impeded my desire…give me back the puritythat doesnt have to be defined….allow me questionsthat need not be answered….allow me to walkfollowing…

nothing more than….cigarette…ashes……fa lling……..to……….the…………floor/nothing less than….sudden….pole…….shif t,……life……..begins……….ane w!how much does forever weigh?

made from the skin strippedfrom the bodiesof the dead and conquered.gold plated offering platesmade of the tiny handsof the ones we let starve.prayers hang, like the broken necksof those we executed for color.scriptures lost, like the children,to a place no one reads…the organ pumps, oil rigs regurgitating,the Wall Street priests performlike circus monkeys in hell….the…