AFRICA: As We Are

we've been risen
driven and discovered.
laced and shaken, worked and worn.
we have been inspired, beat, awoken and have become movement.

we need no pity, our hearts pure with pride,
we dance on.
we need no sympathy, our skies cry tears of a million stars.
we need no snow, we claim the sun as our friend.
'Pretty' she lies in all directions,
our blanket made of galaxies, our fiery rich soil, winds of bliss and water of life.

we've been risen, knocked down and risen again.
we've been taught the turmoils and the easy,
crime and the good
the purely intense and evil.

we've been mugged, imprisoned, set free!
we still ululate and rejoice the grace that is us,
the glory that is amongst us, in all our capacity.
the beauty imprinted in our skin.
that dwells in our smiles as we with nature.

we've been risen and signed our creed in the sky!

Gino Obuseng

i am

I am the light that could shed light upon a dead man heart.
I am the road less travelled, the fears never faced.
I am the dream, the stars rays.
The principal sustainer, the height reacher
I am the night crawler, but the fat worm consumer.
The light at the end of the tunnel, the joy at birth.
I am the church bell, joy and tears.

I am the radiance, I am the core.
I am the delight, I am the result
The cause and the cure.

I am the listener, I am the proclaimed
I am the truth, I am the chaser,
The liar and the light.
I am the prisoner, i am the judge
I am the casualty, I am the lucky
I am the lesson, pillow and the tears.

I am the eye…waiting.
I am realization.

I am time, I am death, a snail
I am force, I am purpose
I am jealousy, I am love
I am sanity, I am the edge, the pill, the ledge
I am the misunderstood, I am the confusing.
I am the haunted, I am the freed.
I am possessed, I am a laugh.
I am the dark, I am the common.

I am the shunned, the cherished, the destroyed, the preserved.
I am the will, I am the fall
I am the seed, I am the root
I am the suffering, I am the survived
I am the maze, I am the way
I am a cactus, the desert and the oasis.

I am the killer, I am the cell.
I am the reason, I am the question.
I am the guard, I am the thief
I am the informer, I am the capturer, I am the controlled and the wanted.

I am the sender, receiver and I am the messenger
I am the applicant, I am the approver and the officer
I am the loved, I am love and loving
I am the seeked, the forgotten and the final frontier
I am the taker, the gift and the giver.
I am the lost, I am whole
I am coincidence, i am the biggest!
I am surprise; i am the heartbeat and the disappointment.

I am the ultimate, i am the infinite
I am a woman.

Gino Obuseng