On This Good Earth

How can I get you to slow down

How can I get you to close your eyes

Would you like to lie down

Laying on grass is so very nice

If you have a hard floor you can still imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine

Times stopped the seconds hand dropped

Bring all things to a grinding halt

The end of time crossing into timelessness

Where all things infinite reside

Can I slow down

Can I close my eyes

Can I lie on the ground and feel governed

By something other than a construct

A web

A matrix in my head

Presenting me with fictional pleasures

Imagined dystopias

Preferred realities

Corrupting the collective imagination

Its essence

Its power of manifestation

Can I get you to slow down

Can I get you to close your eyes

Can I get you to let go

Can I get you to forget time

And still we choose systems that enslave

Unconscious participants

In self subjugation

Suppressors of others

Fear our justification

Will you slow down

Will you close your eyes

Will you let go

And breath into the stillness of time

When did your tender heart harden

We you scared of being that mad fool

Does it occur to you that centuries have colonised the human mind

But the human spirit never dies

Slow down with me

Close your eyes with me

Lie on the grass and breathe deeply

letting go for the first time

Imaging the world as yours and mine

Reborn

You are reborn
Bringing forth forgotten gifts
Breath into those painful spaces
Of memories
A worn out pot
A ladle without food
Devoid of nourishment
An empty hug
A child yearning for unconditional love 

To be nourished
In tall grasses
Warmed by savannah sun
In the redness of the outback
Held by our ancestors in love
Ancestors that are landscape
Found in mineral, earth, root and blood

Hear the whisper
Warm
Golden
Soft
Silken
Receive
Accept
Secret
Magical
Silent Mysteries
Yours alone

You are reborn
Bearing gifts

Even Before Death

This dislocated life was not of my making
Known only to the sentinels of those infinite dark spaces

Twisted in the womb
Breached from birth
Epigenetic sequencing
Cellular memories of 
Lives on earth

Abandoned in your rich fathers house
A tom boy left to fight
An ill fated arranged marriage to a poor man made over night
Impoverished by cruelty neglect expulsion
Hostile xenophobia failed diagnosis cold nights …

Brought back to the present by undulating soul sounds
A soothing backdrop to angry mobs and marching crowds
Not unfamiliar to me and my generation
And for our elders (and the deceased) all too reminiscent
The terror the violence a ceasless premonition

Police on colour not this time
This time they stood observing the far right
Harboured racial hatred
Emboldened by genocides
Legitimised all too crudely in broad daylight

This time the death threats turned into brown fires
And the state looked on
Why should it enquire
What, wait whose death are we talking about
Theirs or mine?

In some ways we’ve already died
As if there isn’t enough going on in my brown mind

Listening to dubplate

body moving

elegant

Phurba in hand

weaving

eye dance

feet planted

on kitchen floor tiling

connecting to earth below

deep

deepening

sensing planetary mycelium

a mutualistic web

the roots of a million trees

electrically pulsating

symbiotic activity

species in now unity

it’s our separation

disintegrating life

power agendas

where mean allegiance lies

and all the while hegemonic patriarchal mechanical monsters vye on all sides

digesting

excreting 

solidified corruption

spewing lies, rockets and nuclear missiles

these are dangerous times to be playing the wrong side

Deluded

Im too long in the tooth to listen to your bull shit
You’ve been suffering the same malady before the year it
I’ll let you into a secret as to what it is
It’s the genetic disease white people git

We’re poorer than them paks next door
“What the ones that pass curry over the back wall?”
Never see them down the pub for sure
Never seen them down there at all
“You’d kick their heads in if they did, of that I’m sure”

Blokes in dresses
Women in sheets
And have you seen what muck they eat?

We don’t want your peace and kindness malarky
You don’t even drink like them other darkies
Oh yeh and you speak in your own filthy language

We don’t care about being ruled by the elite
We love our royals and a fight with the police
Its our culture, it’s our pride, our never ending glory
To get trashed and trash others
And act like bad boys

We just hate you
And that’s justification enough
To burn you to ashes and turn you to dust
We pay taxes and you come over here to scav
“No love, you still work cash in hand”

All I know is from when I was a child
I was told that for me to live you must die
For king and country and all that lies.

We have come to be danced

We have come to be danced
Not the pretty, pick me, pick me dance
But the back into the belly dance
The sacred sensual animal dance
The holding of precious moments in the psalms
Of our hands and feet dance

We have come to be danced
Not the twerk your booty for the crowd dance
But the shake the sadness from our skin dance
The shrug the chip off your shoulder dance
The wring the apology from our posture dance 

We have come to be danced
Not the monkey see monkey do dance
The one, two like me dance
Three, four like you dance
But the grave robber, the tomb stalker dance
The opening coffins and resurrection of the self dance

We have come to be danced
Not the self conscious shuffle dance
But the Voodoo mamma shape shifting ancient bone rattle dance
That strips us from our casings
Sharpening claws and loosening tongue dance
Returning us our wings dance
The shed our dead skin cells and slip into the luminous skin of love dance 

We have come to be danced
Not the hold our breath and wallow in
The shallow end of the floor dance
But the meeting of the trinity
The body, breath and beat dance
The shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance 

But mother may I
Take 10 giant leaps of faith dance
The everyone can enter heaven dance
Where kingdoms collide
In cathedrals of flesh
To unravel, to play, to fly, to pray
And root into our body’s stance

We have come to be danced