Where Have You Laid Them?

Draft One....
Where Have You Laid Them?
Draft One....

Scriptural Basis:

Spoken: And He said, "Where have you laid him?"
Sung: They said to Him, "Lord, come and see."
Spoken: Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, "See how He loved him!"
Sung: Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.
Spoken (unison): And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
Spoken: And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me."Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice,

(Sung and spoken) "Lazarus, come forth!"

Spoken: And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him, and let him go."


(A guitar with a sweet but complicating melody-- sounding like the islands, maybe a morocco, and a horn of some sorts, of course a base, and bits of scripture between the poetry.)

Lyrics:

No barrier could hold me from your voice,
I come to thee , Lord of my choice
you set me free from sin i was bound
no longer dead, in you I have been found.


Poem:
Shhh, baby...
he's sleeping
but mama is weeping
and babygirl is peeping
from the bend of her mother's leg
wondering why her superhero
is so still
She can't understand
him laying there
him: cornrowed and had not
Her: pigtails and forget me nots
the white sheets of his bed
are crisp, still, and silent like flags
but breath takes no breaks
just it only watches and waits
on fate
his blackness beautiful and bruised
as the colored sky

Such a waste, but why? (Sung)

the doctors say it is too late
the deeply knotted wounds of his mother tongue
have coiled into bitter, sticky, knots in the back of his throat
and he choked
on the half eaten hurt

The old people call on Jesus, but where is he?
Where is he as another soulja
surrenders to strife

and another is doing 25 to life
and another woman who isn't a wife
must explain to her child why daddy can't kiss her
goodnight...

Lyrics:
No barrier could hold me from your voice,
I come to thee , Lord of my choice
you set me free from sin i was bound
no longer dead, in you I have been found.

Poem:
Life is measured in electric moments
the blip of a screen
the touch of a hand
stifles screams of dreams
the meandering of the mind
as the soul searches for
a tendered moment
paid in full


and yet his mercies are new each day
the great I am
shines
sings
is
the song of our soul and our sorrows

Where have you laid them
the fallen superheros boxed in by their own realities
the black fruit fallen by palm trees
of beachy cities
we cry out to the earth
for all the sons that have run away home
only to find that they are lost
sons of stolen souls
stealing the souls of others to make them whole
Singing a song of sixpence
when will it, when will it, when will it end?

Yet, his mercies are new each day
He weeps for them, touches them, gently as a kiss

Permit even this
Yes, even this.

Lyrics:
No barrier could hold me from your voice,
I come to thee , Lord of my choice
you set me free from sin i was bound
no longer dead, in you I have been found.

Savior, Savior
Hear my humble cry
don't pass me by
Don't pass me by

Don't pass me by
Don't pass me by...

Get up, young man,
Come forth young man,
Be still young man
walk into your destiny
for concrete has no remembrance, neither has it kin
Come forth young man
and to him

Walk into your destiny
for he sets the captive free

Be released
be renewed
be reborn
just be


Lyrics:

Savior, Savior
Hear my humble cry
Don't pass me by
Don't pass me by

Do not
pass me by
Do not
pass me by
Do not
pass me by