SO LONG.

When a son is born women ululate,
When he is named they dance,
After circumcision they discuss him in hushed tones,
When he becomes a warrior they pray,
After his first kill they sing dance and praise him,
And when he goes to war,
They offer sacrifices, asking the gods to keep him safe…

And so am I, a warrior going to war,
Like Busy Signal ill Missya Missya….
Like Tarrus Riley I give it up for my real friends…
I have learnt to fly, and among those wings,
Are feathers from all and sundry,
Those that loved, those that hated, those that just bxxxxxx,
But all those feathers,
Have made my wings strong, agile, steady, resilient…

So as I soar in this world,
I will have a piece of all the lovers, the haters and the bxxxxxx holding me up,
What more could a warrior need??
And when we meet, I will narrate the tales,
Of the giants I felled, the ogres I slay, of the hurdles I overcame,
And like the women back in the village,
We will dance, and make merry, and toast,
To a warrior long gone, but always forging on….
SO LONG!!!

NEVER BURNED OUT

Sometimes we do stupid stuff,
That leaves everyone around us wondering, guessing, raving,
What the XXX we were thinking,
And for a moment we can’t explain,
Not even to ourselves,
What the XXX we were doing......

Most times it passes like a wave,
Sweeping us with it, we choke, we drown,
we're hit against the hard rocks,
At times we go never to return, never to be seen,
Never to heard,
‘Burned out' I hear they call it......

Until the day we realize,
That we are still warriors,
Just like Lion King,
Who never stopped hoping,
That a brighter day would come,
But it’s never really brighter is it?
Never really better either........

You just hope that the past won’t catch up,
That it will somehow forget,
That you can run faster than the wind, if the past were it,
That someone somewhere will over look,
or make a deliberate decision,
To let things slide, bury the hatchet, out of the window…..

But until then, you can only keep hoping,
Keep living; keep running, faster than your feet can propel you,
Always looking over your shoulder, is it catching up, are you gonna fall,
Never to rise up!!!