Identity Piece
Me: You don't know me
you don't know the tears that I've cried
when I've tried to fit in with a group of people
like you.
Memorys, memorys oh cruel memorys
like trying to suck the poison out of a bite
you fill my mouth with your bitter venom.
Memorys of small child trying to belong only
to be forced to the ground.
Others: Why should they help you? You weren't born here.
Me: No, I was not of America born
but I have been baptized in a river of scorn
by people who know me not
and I have stood strong and fought
the waves of their impurity
It's all surging back to me
NO!!!!
I will not be like you.
Let me give you a hand
so maybe you can understand
what I have been through.
you don't know the tears that I've cried
when I've tried to fit in with a group of people
like you.
Memorys, memorys oh cruel memorys
like trying to suck the poison out of a bite
you fill my mouth with your bitter venom.
Memorys of small child trying to belong only
to be forced to the ground.
Others: Why should they help you? You weren't born here.
Me: No, I was not of America born
but I have been baptized in a river of scorn
by people who know me not
and I have stood strong and fought
the waves of their impurity
It's all surging back to me
NO!!!!
I will not be like you.
Let me give you a hand
so maybe you can understand
what I have been through.
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ReplyDeleteHey guys Imani here! This is my spoken word piece. BTW I dont know how to post anything but comments so I put it on here! =)
ReplyDelete"Imani's Spoken Word"
Shattered dreams of hope echo through the depths of my soul as if they were surrounded by sharp pointed cavern walls
Deep inside is where I will find, but I am deep and I have found nothing
I have found nothing because I am nothing
Shallow ink fills pages and pages of epic books and rage is my only outlet
What when where how and WHY!
Why is there why? Why do we justify with why?
Reasons upon reasons because because BECAUSE
WHY do I feel trapped?
Because somehow I've sense my reality crumbling upon me
A breath is taken for granted for this is all my mother needs but needless wants flaunt timeless tales of misfortune and misconduct
Abducted by the indigenous our minds journey through time
The past tells the future but our future is now present
The hour glass still pours but when will stop?
I cannot make it, for the sacred takes it's toll and I roll through the punches
Numbed by my mind altering substances abundant to the starving and homeless
I am without am I not?
Sure my people are dying but I am too
Incarceration to the tenth degree
Can't you see?
Or do I need to check my prescription?
There I am squinting at what lies beneath the surface of my being and all I'm seeing is the truth and it more than hurts
It pierces through my heart like Excalibur another dragon slayed
But I am not the hunter I am the prey that lays in the meadow while my herd runs frantically frightened
COME TO ME DESTROYER COME GREAT WARRIOR OF BRAVERY AND STRENGTH VIRTUOUS MASTER OF BENEVOLENCE AND UNDERSTANDING
COME!!!! END MY PAIN END MY SUFFERING TELL ME:
THAT, "It's gonna be okay!" AND LET ME TURN AWAY ONLY TO HEAR THE:
BOOOOOOMM!!
I will not see another day
Father Piece:
ReplyDeleteSing: "if you don't know me by now, you will never never never know me. Oh"
Leslie: (speaks)
Krys:... finding the light that fills you up so brilliant it fights out the pain you inflicted on yourself upon me that saturated our love into a festering wound...
Leslie: (speaks)
Krys: ...leaving these cells with bars containing the remnants of the compassion you've littered with syringes and those rocks fulfilling your SNAP CRACKLE AND POP high. Pops to your head for Kuya to explain why your voice has no trace left of the music of your love.
Leslie + Krys: [sing] "because of You"
Leslie: (speaks)
Krys:... FLASHBACK-- me, remember daddy, you were my hero, my knight protecting his princess, your princess. My Knight, not on a horse but a big brown clunk called "bubba" rescuing me from a hard day of school. Sometimes on foot, bearing arms, only arms that embraced and carried my woes. What happened to those days, I'll never know.
Leslie: (speaks)
Krys:... I don't know how we got to this point where you love has disappeared under the bitterness that I hear when you try to sing. It doesn't ring it doesn't resonate with the notes written across my heart, when inscribed the moment you thought of my life.
Leslie: (speaks)
Krys: ... but I grew up, stood up, owned up to shut up about the sanctity of truth and love. Only dreaming of your once plump cheeks, dreaming of my knight who knew a life of love and not the selfish ranks of a kingdom of drugs. I'm dreaming daddy, listen to our lullaby.
Leslie + Krys: [Begin lullaby]
Identity Piece: (w/ Ivan and Konstantin)
ReplyDelete[Ivan Speaks]
[Konst. and Krys SING] Radiohead - "Creep"
Konst. - [speaks] ...GROUND [I repeat: "ground"]
Krys- it's dirt, rather filth, thickens with the asked of desecrated souls looking for nothing but a space to call home. [IVAN REPEATS "home"]
Ivan - (speaks) ...greed.
Krys- ...like my Filipino mother who worked her whole life to set foot on this first called America.
Konst. - (speaks) ...back to me [I REPEAT "back to me"]
Krys - back to me like my father, roots calling back to slavery when masser cracked the whip to scar insecurities upon the backs of men still swimming towards the sun, swimming past the fools calling dark skin inferior, finding now that black man is rising superior. But not, my daddy never got his 40 acres or that damn mule.
Ivan - (speaks) ...no more
Konst. - (speaks) ...venom
Krys - I don't expect you to relate for my skin is a benevolent symbols of peace covered up by the ignorance in the form of reveries vouched by blinded men unable to sanctify interracial matrimonies.
Ivan - (speaks)...second language. [I REPEAT "language"]
Krys - Language. Forced to speak the language of my masters, considered a social basterd where do i stand?
Konst. - (speaks)... extend my hand.
Ivan - (speaks)... ignorant bliss.
Krys - But i stand color blind by gaining conciousness collected through courage to counter those cowards content with categorizing Earth's many cultures.
Ivan - (speaks)... and maybe
Krys + Konst. - Just Maybe
Ivan- (speaks)
Konst. - so acknowledge me
Krys - for i am me
All three - I have a perfect body, i have a perfect soul. ... Because i am special, so fucken special.
Krys -
"The Song" (as so titled until further notice)
ReplyDeleteVerse 1
How do we love when our home is broken?
Where is the heart with words unspoken?
All of these walls we've built up, it's it the time we all had enough?
Hook
Ain't gon' take it no more.
Breathe unto me
Ain't gon' take it no more.
Tell me what you see
Ain't gon' take it no more.
How does the silence fill your soul?
Today I'm finding me... finally.
[Imani Flows]
Hook X1
Verse 2
Walking foreward still looking behind, trapped in the confines of someone else mind.
Where do we look but inside our souls?
I can't tell if it's heaven or gold.
Hook 1x
...Fina...ly...
[BREAKDOWN]
Chessa + Krys do rounds of "ain't gon take it no more," "finally," "today i'm finding me"