Amandla awethu?

This is how the world would have it

I grew up timid,

The cruel elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear

That’s what happens when you’re born with this pigment 

Grew more confident and got lost within myself…

Might have gotten lost in the sauce

This is coming from the source, I’m just a scared little boy

Born in a concentration camp 

That’s all kasi is 

Calling it Bantu housing was just a rebrand… it’s all semantics 

Systemic oppression has always been two steps ahead

What are they really afraid of?

Do they know something we don’t?

Are we at war with each other or at war with ourselves…

Maybe projecting it?

Confined for exploitation and punishment 

Imprisonment isn’t so literal after all; maybe a few more steps ahead then we thought?

Mind bending manipulation - generational, it’s become a norm

Unchain me from these mind forged manacles! 

So thorough we’re passing it down,

their glory is at our expense 

All this effort to keep a black man down?

They taught us everything we know 

The first step to liberation is learning to unlearn 

What’s really due?

Is there a set fee?

Knicks from the pale control our reality

I demand a reset.

I trust you.

Of all things in life I yearn for the state of peace 

How could a feeling be so familiar before I’ve  experienced it?

When I close my eyes, I know how it sounds, feels and tastes

Is peace tangible?

Maybe it’s a choice?

Is peace a reaction or a response?

Sometimes knowing I am trying my best feels like peace 

Sometimes peace is just being in my own space…

Recently I’ve realised it could be being reliable to someone you love

How is peace so many things and nothing specific?

I could not tell you what it means to me but I know how it sounds, feels and tastes

As much as it varies from time to time…

It seems it is a combination of things but the most bombarding thing about it is that I have to keep working to achieve calmness

What worked yesterday won’t work tomorrow 

What works tomorrow might not work in a week

The constant shift of learning and unlearning in real time… that’s what I need to figure out.

I find peace in my confidence in self

I find peace in being loved

I find peace in my art

I find peace in knowing… 

I am not forsaken 

I’ll just collect my moments of solace to even myself out to keep moving forward 

I know I only have life in abundance. 

Festering/Blossoming

Be careful,

Stay strong minded

Believe in something or fall for anything

Existing is traumatic…

Know yourself or 

Your existence becomes the reckoning of being septic 

That becomes the difference between blossoming and festering

Be gentle,

Take care of your mental

Mind your business and

Mind your company.

The mind is the window to the soul

The eyes never lie, don’t say eye too much.

Realise there’s something greater than you

That becomes the difference between blossoming and festering

Your body is a temple,

A garden of Eden 

You are not your own. 

Love is about giving not receiving 

Shan’t you be conscious of reaping as much as you can before the reaper comes

Be the vessel you were meant to be…

A beautiful creation but don’t be vain 

That becomes the difference between blossoming and festering

Trinity can be Me, Myself and I

Or the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit 

That becomes the difference between blossoming and festering

I hope you’ll see the Field of Reeds