your flesh sustains me…
i see through your eyes.
your lips quench my thirst,
your heart feeds my hunger.
your darkness my womb,
your emptiness fills me…
you are my body,
and i am yours!
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lost your job, lost your house,
aint got a prayer, nobody cares,feel like you’re doing time.your family gone, now right is wrong,what you believed has disappeared.stone upon stone, bone upon bone,nothing left, nothing endured.and the world comes crashing down.in too deep, the fearful drown.stand up and be, or just sit down.what goes around comes around!
too long in the garden,
too long at the table,too long tending the fire…too long fighting wars,too long in the cave.too long, and too many nights,burning the candle down.too long behind the wheel,too long on the cross…it is finished, day is done…roll back the stone!
where lovers meet,
where song is born,before thoughts or constraints.where touch is formed,in the bed of want.where hearts are loosed,and fire begins.where two roads merge,two rivers become one.where the sparrow’s wingsgain the eagle’s heights.where black and whiteare filled with color.where the mountaintopembraces the sky.where every dreamis laid at the door.where time itselflooses its grip….where thunder waitsin the silent…
memory ingrained in the memory,
light ingrained in the darkness,evil ingrained in the good.poor man ingrained in the bricksthat built the rich man’s home.father ingrained in the child,his destination, gone…freedom ingrained in oppression,moth ingrained in the flame.tomorrow ingrained in today,the nameless ingrained in the name.courage ingrained in the fearsthat determination overcomes.God ingrained in the human,left standing when all is done!
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free to be hungry!free to be homeless!free to be underpaid!or worse, free to be unemployed.free to be sick without care!free to be the object of racial prejudice.free to be oppressed by the ‘haves’!free to be subjugated to unholy wars!free to be lied to!free to be used!free to be American!free!‘freedom’s just another wordfor nothing left to…