Adapting to Climate Change

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Adapting to Climate Change

Into thine hands

Into thine hands I commit...
My heart, through a heart that's yours already
To know that it has been found and recommitted
To sturdy hands that can care

I commit me into thine hands
Through a mouth that claims your truth
For the fruit of this gift is not ready to bare
In nor out of season or reason within a crying temple

To your hands I command another
Sent with a strict truth to stay
Stay true to spirit and spirit alone
Take charge angels, you must

Take hold of all that I am
And all I ever will be
I permit thee
For now and forever

Into your hands I commit thee
Forever and always
This will be
A thumping prayer

A prayer that will never sleep
A prayer that will never cease
For I am with thee
into your hands I commit thee

Write the right

There was a slash!
Eyesight blurry
The gash was across my chest
My hands all bloody

As knees grew weak
So did the world I stood in
Fading with the fall
All collapsed

With that slash
Egged the heat of battle
Lying there alone
The clashes swords were all in my head

My mind manifested a deep cut
That sword flung towards my flesh
Registered with such depth
Bleeding me quickly

"I see you holding a pen
And as you use that pen
I see you healing
I see you writing the right of your being"

"Writing the right of my being?!"
I played that like a mantra
Marching towards my minds' war
Avenging my lifeless, lonely body in the dust

All armed with pens
All edged to fierceness
This ground was holy
The purge aged ready

They plunged each point of their pens
Struck within the belly of the beast
Mauled each marching minion
Murdered each mindless mole

My pen avenged my mind
Released my righteousness
Replaced my resentment
With a cloak of wisdom

They won the battle
And the war
In light of a genocide
A fight for peace was won

I coughed blood as my eyes made sense of strength
Hands stained by a war I thought into being
I didn't lay in the dust anymore
I was on a blank page, with a pen in my hand
Ready to write the right of my being

Prayed today

I prayed today!
Prayed the world will understand
"We cant always get what we want
But we'd always get what we need"

I prayed today!
Prayed that I'd understand
The still, small voice that speaks
In a great big multitasking world

I prayed today!
Prayed that they prayed for your mercy
And wealth of understanding
To withstand the utterances of the enemy

I prayed today!
Prayed that I'd come to know
Know more of what your kingdom can bring
So I can serve it

I prayed today!
Prayed for you, especially
That you'd see the spirit of things
And not listen to anything else that speaks

I prayed today!
For the peace of nations
And the peace of man
And the peace of self

I prayed today!
I prayed today!
That i'd pray everyday
Without stopping

Peace is needed

Peace is needed!
as the search for the whole began
Parts of the systems quaked

A stretch of tar lined the path
Within all those crumbs were now hidden
No guide towards home

This grew unfamiliar
And as the caged bird sings
Feathers blew awkwardly in the wind

Even the sky turned gray
While the tar held true
Hardening hopes of a home so far

The caged bird sang
Not for a beautiful day
But to be a part of any

Peace is needed!
And as the search milled on
The way got crowded

Experience was sceptre in hand
"One eye man was king in blind eye country"
Like sheep aligned, a mob like trail

East bound journey towards Mecca
Blistered feet fed pain
The sun is unkind even in gray skies

A melody to quell the inside
And as the caged bird sings
That birds fixation is guide to focus

The night grows cold
A passing wind finds a wanderer wanting
"Where is home?"

The dark envelopes
A flame alight
Just light and senses now

But peace is needed!
As the dark is never quiet
Neither is the midday

Seek the soul in hilly places
Risk a body to get there
Silence the mind to find it
Right where peace will be

Invictus - cover by Ruqayyah Boyer, Cinematography by: Yaphet Jackman

Speak (Title Piece)

Soul lovers

Hours would pass because hours never mattered
Time was no boundary for we are timeless and still free
You said we made a contract with God to be
And now we reside in time to see what that bond was made of

Just like old times
We knew we knew forever
We clicked, because we ticked within the time of this world
Our bodies never mattered,  it was our souls that twirled

Consumed like before
This realm has never seen such a connection
Such A vibration that causes chain reactions in the galaxies
But Why did we choose this plane?

Our spirits were colourless
But somehow we shaded them with this tattered flesh
Impure dust that was functional to span this vile earth
Why here? Why now?

What was our significance within this crust?
Wasn't our love celestial enough?
Did we have to throw us to the test of time?
Did we have to relearn who we are in this mortal form?

And now we abide at bay
Sipping our due wine from separate glasses
Thinking about that clause
That clause, for a pause in this contract we made

Searching our minds for the answers...
Maybe thats the answer in itself
Knowing the weakness of this form, we try!
Tried to test a boundless love in weakened fickle flesh

Swore to harness the fire we make within a million suns
Pledged to steady quivering lips and leaping hearts
We knew how we'd feel when we met
We knew we'd reform this earth and all that abide within

But the 3rd party beckconed
I wish that others choose their own destiny
Our love could change that free will on this plane
And so we vowed again

We'd talk
We'd kiss
We'd reminisce
On the times our souls have shared
But baby... we're too dunamis
I'll guess I'll see you next life time

33/3

I deem you worthy!
Open validation was never my forte
But I scribe these words in your honor

We took it higher!
And maybe what I saw that day was right
But I think now neither of us would've evolved

It was permissive will
Something that's "ok" but not the best
We didn't settle for less!
We always yearned for more from us

But at our different levels that meant something else
You added up, believe me you did
But how could I count more if you weren't you yet?
I knew I saw your future, but now I know its was my reflection

You were me!
The unready, steady logic seeker
Who would guess and guess again until the very end was clear
The clear vision of how still I was in time before I drew strength

I was...
That sage...
That timeless spirit that found you for that time
And for that time only that you needed me
nothing more, nothing less

We clinged!
And from this plane, it was natural to see
Cause im that sage, and you're that page
From my first version of "3"

Don't get it twisted
I set out to tell you of your beauty
Of your grace and your royalty
But babe can't you see
What we thought was not to be

We stopped adding up
Cause I stopped adding up to where true love is
Shot past my purpose and got in the redesign
I read the signs, when they should've been read to me
I pulled a page from my history
November 29, 03'

At that time, you were that sage
And I was you!
You told me how much I'd be, but I never believed
Never conceived I'd see the day the script would flip
Karma surely is a cold heartless bitch

A ruthless mistress all the same
Taking hearts to play games
While saying it's a truce

The stain is pain
But hearts have gained wisdom in stormy minds
The most beautiful things are born outside the twine...
Of peace

And so the role was played again
Me the rooster, you the hen
And then the thread broke

I must be leaving
You not believing
I should be gone
You think im wrong
But who knows...

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
But if the heart feeds on you, its you it'll surely seek
Pressed down, shaken together and running...
Over with time, over this time, over and... why? (Sigh)

It wasn't meant to be this way
You had to go, I needed to stay
Stay to learn this lesson again
So this script can come to an end

And now you'll see
That in as much I needed to crash and burn
The "I" was always me
while "I" was always "you"
And "you" was always "me"
So the "I" was really "we"

"We" crashed!
and we're burning!
For God alone to see
That we were a reflection of one another
Version "33/3"

Those words are "hers"

This is an entry!
For it must be said for my sanity

I've heard this all before
Same script, different cast!
Forgive me for sounding crass, but I am!

Like an age old mantra
It sung to me
"There's something about you..."
I never knew and neither did they
Until one day someone called it a "gift"

That thought drift some ways from my mind
But I kept it!
I didn't trip, thinking on those words
"A Gift, a gift, a gift?"
This made me stiff

In all the wrong places
Took a nose dive in the bee hive
I was thriving!
Story of my life was
"Why you not jiving?"

"Look upon these seas of hunny bees
Where is your sting?!
Ain't nothing but a chickennnnn..."

Head all boiled
Snake uncoiled
It was time to sink in

And that's where it had to begin
The script repeats itself
Metamorphosis in true physics
The soul never grew old

"There's something about you!"
Oh how I knew that number
Ready to tango, but with a whole lot less
Now under the stress of knowing the end

"It's not me ya see...
I'm just the precursor
But right here! right now!
You know that you're closer!"

"Cause i'm that test
I'm not that sign
I'm that detour
Cause your love is blind and so am I!"

"I'm not ready to go steady
Cause, there's something about you that's not me!
I can say that now, cause I've played that... how?"

"I can't remember when I fell in
Hell in
The dwelling of this "gift" that made me stiff
And I couldn't understand why I wanted to be a better man"

And so I told you!
And I'd breathe
And you agreed! That I'd succeed

But then you made a step
Just like my history creep
Back into my face again
To say you'll stay until the end

And there and then I run again
Counting to the top of 10
Because I never claimed you!
"But there's something abouttttt..."

You don't even say the words
Because your words... are just...like hers!
And hers and hers !
Not mine but yours!
Your words...are just... like hers...
and hers...!

Don't sink me when I dip
I've stayed true to a beating heart
And when it lies I trip!

I am made of love
And this is true
I've never lied to you
But but my heart has

it wants to love you
Because i've never loved it
Like a wagging dog
I told it "SIT!...
I'm not playing with you!"

And so it roamed
Barking all around trying to find a new home
Cause home was not where my heart was!

Love is not blind
And cannot take over your mind
But love is free!
Free to love who it loves...unconditionally
"In spirit and in truth!"

In spirit and in truth?
Yes the root cause of this equation
The reason for this dilation in my eyes
When I can hold you
And say to you
"I LOVE YOU!"
And you'll know its true

For those words will be mine
Not yours!
In spirit and in truth!
In spirit and in truth!
In spirit...and in truth!

And this spirit has found its heart
Learning to love, learning to trust again
Cause the tail stopped wagging
And the master is warm again

Never will he hear again
"There's something about you!"
And not know its truth
Until the spirit gives you utterance
To says the words that's not "hers"
Or hers...or hers!

Come now, heart

Come now heart
Tell me a story
Remember what you said

Remember what you said about
Staying with me forever
About being my sun and my sky
As we basked in playful moments
We thought would never die

Remember you held me
And told me that you cared
That the beat we felt together
Was our sync that none would share

Come now heart...
Tell me a story
Remember what you said

Remember we held hands in the sight the sky
Stared deeply at our souls and swore we'd never lie
Stayed true to our words and tied our signs
There was nothing that could separate us
We were the essences of each others tongues

Come now heart...
Tell me a story
Remember what you said

Remember where we sat and planned
Where we reached with our minds
Mine was yours and yours was mine
We were inseparable

And even when I strayed...you stayed
Seeking a vile direction, you paid attention
It's where I needed you most, you came up short
your eyes contort my actions
Now there's no satisfaction

Come now... heart...
Tell me a story...
Begin with the truth

The past has no lasting memory
The bliss has gone up yonder and now I'm here
Alone...
Staring you in the face

Tell me! How have I reached this place?
Tell me! Why are the stains so deep?
Tell me!... How did we get here?!

Oh my heart...
You once bled for me
You once shed this led for me
Why Now do you retrieve?

You hatched to conceive this treachery
To recall this misery we never knew
To tend and mind this whirlwind we dared to brew
And now... this... just... kills me!

But remember...
"Never"
That's what you said to me!
"Never would I hurt thee!"
...So who am I?

Come!...now?!...heart...
Don't grow wary
I'm not scary
I'm just afraid

You've left me here
Alone and timid
Because I've never lived without you
What should I do?

Come...now...
heart...?

No sense of identity

She said: "I don't like dem drums!
I don't like that sound
make it something else!"

something that's a part of her
She painted in another color.
Sold to her as just a piece of bad history
Or probably just something to admire!

That sound that's alive in her
where one can never escape
but as she denies
I hear my ancestors cry and ball from a swollen face!
"another one fall from grace!"
when she threw her crown that is rightfully hers to the ground

into the hands they were ripped from
for her freedom
but she don't like dem drums!
She don't like dem drums!

What could it have been?!
Charcoal woman thinking her skin is sin
Trying all kinda thing to feel like
"Yes! I winning! I fit in!
Trading her value for a "lighter" melanin

They selling you a fad, For all you had
Cause Ya done lost it already
Ya honor
Ya dignity
Ya pride

But the story, is not just fuh she
Let's talk about the wanna bes
the Weezies, the rockafellas, and the MMG's

The niggas that would make niggas loose their mind
The ones that lost their souls even before time
How could dis be right
The culture of a jail cell hit the lime light

I doan understand it all
We pullin everything from dem
And den we wondering, is wha happenin
De children dem culture
Suffering poliomyelitis

Public ministers calling this a crisis
But what is this really
How can your blackness make you wary
Isnt this scary?!

A color I've never seen fade
Always beaming strong
And yes I brag
It tek a real long time fuh dis black skin to sag

I find this funny
All this marvex and symba
As opportunities to make dolla
High tops and colored boxers
To mek man hip

Doan mind "is summa time"
In a seasonless country
When big truck and Kelly gon piss pun all a we

But wait!
Is why I talking trini
Cause I wanted to feel like a Guyanese
that loss they identity