Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Hung
Do you know what it is like to be
Hung? (Sung)
Do you know what it is like to be
Hung? (Sung)
No I’m not talking about that popular definition of
Hung. (Sung)
Like a bird in the air suspended in mid flight
Hung(Sung)
A multicolored rainbow of feathers in flight
Hung(Sung)
Seven stars, in alignment
Hung(Sung)
The rising of the sea to meet the moon
Hung(Sung)
The red skinned branches of the Sequoia
Hung (Sung)
The oily olive of the Serengeti trees
Hung(Sung)
The peak of a pyramid, an opulent brief reprieve
Hung(Sung)
Yes we all have ideas of what it is like to be
Hung(Sung)
Even here among these yonder popular trees we know what it means to be
Hung(Sung)
Scarlet goodbye letters amongst bitter battered leaves
Hung(Sung)
In the right place, but in the wrong skin
Hung(Sung)
Wrong skin, and right men and you can be
Hung(Sung)
Judge, Trial but no Jury
Hung (Sung)
Still, I don’t think you really understand what it is to be
Hung(Sung)
I mean, when friends become removed like a coat from the hanger
Hung(Sung)
When the lips of the beloved are colder than the stranger
Hung(Sung)
When everything in you says run, but still, you face the danger
Hung (Sung)
When your love is counted in the seconds it takes
When the seconds it takes become without time
Hung(Sung)
As they drug you through the cities whipped and scarred
While those you’d given everything refused to look you in the eye
Hung(Sung)
Oh I don’t really think you know what it is to be
Hung (Sung)
Mangled sentences, sparsely separated
Hung(Sung)
Speech cut off mid---
Hung(Sung)
A wine drenched rag hitting the skin like sizzles
Hung (Sung)
A nail in the hand, a nail in the foot
Hung(Sung)
Who do you think you are, anyway, to say that the Lord redeems? they yell.
Hung(Sung)
Hoisted, lifted up with only a white loin cloth
Praying because this is not a walk that you want, but you choose to walk
Hung(Sung)
For your mighty acts, crowned with thorns
For your loving words fed a fist
Hung(Sung)
For your holy nature clothed in dust
Hung(Sung)
Gave your blood, we spat on you
Sung Verse:
Hung!
Pieced in the side!
For the sins of a world so cold
They shun the love they needed to survive
Oh Holy, Holy, Holy
You, that Hung
Or Worthy, Worthy, Worthy
Is the Lamb that hung
Poem (Spoken)
Prince of Peace
The Great I Am
The holy hope
Of every man
You sit upon
The Throne of Grace
That hangs above
This broken place
Clear bright sound of Angels singing echoing day and night
Hung upon a darkened cross,
Yet you are the light
Do you really understand what it means to be
Hung? (Sung)
Do you really understand how much you’re worth and for this he was
Hung?(Sung)
If you understood how much the Father was willing to pay to release
you from the devil’s grip,
your mouth would be filled with so much praise you could no longer use it to speak
And when you approached the throne of grace you’d bow your head in this scared place
It would be
Hung (Sung)
Hung(Sung)
Hung (Sung)
(Sung)
In reverence
In Honor
In Love
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Miss Mary's Blues
Miss Mary Mack
Mack, Mack
All dressed in Black
Black Black
With Silver Buttons
Butttons, Buttons
All down her Back
Back, Back
She asked her mother
Mother, Mother
For fifteen Cents
Cents, cents
to see the Elephants
Eleplants, Elephants
Jump the Fence
Fence Fence
Miss Mary Mack
Mack Mack
All dressed in Black
Black, Black
She's on her way
Way Way
to get her man
Back Back Back
She went to town
Town Town
to buy some Shoes
Shoes Shoes
With Silver Heels
Heels, Heels
Give him the Blues
Blues Blues
She was so Fine
Fine Fine
By Innate design
Design, Design
That all the Men
Men Men
Stood in a Line
Line Line
They begged and Pleaded
Pleaded, Pleaded
For Mary's hand
Hand, Hand
Even her Sorry
Sorry Sorry
Cheating Man
Man Man
But Mary Loved
Loved Loved
Her Self enough
Nuff, Nuff
To walk away
Way, Way
With a Tuff Strut
Strutt Strut
You see she loved herself
Self Self
She is God's Best
Best Best
and she don't settle
Settle, Settle
For Nothing
Less, Less, less
Mack, Mack
All dressed in Black
Black Black
With Silver Buttons
Butttons, Buttons
All down her Back
Back, Back
She asked her mother
Mother, Mother
For fifteen Cents
Cents, cents
to see the Elephants
Eleplants, Elephants
Jump the Fence
Fence Fence
Miss Mary Mack
Mack Mack
All dressed in Black
Black, Black
She's on her way
Way Way
to get her man
Back Back Back
She went to town
Town Town
to buy some Shoes
Shoes Shoes
With Silver Heels
Heels, Heels
Give him the Blues
Blues Blues
She was so Fine
Fine Fine
By Innate design
Design, Design
That all the Men
Men Men
Stood in a Line
Line Line
They begged and Pleaded
Pleaded, Pleaded
For Mary's hand
Hand, Hand
Even her Sorry
Sorry Sorry
Cheating Man
Man Man
But Mary Loved
Loved Loved
Her Self enough
Nuff, Nuff
To walk away
Way, Way
With a Tuff Strut
Strutt Strut
You see she loved herself
Self Self
She is God's Best
Best Best
and she don't settle
Settle, Settle
For Nothing
Less, Less, less
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
bitter rinds
wrath
is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed
of the cacao tree
from which chocolate is made
typically with a machete
pulp and cocoa seeds
are removed
and the rind is discarded
You must always handle wrath carefully,
In order to separate the curse from the crème
But the fool
walks in the bitters
ego sticking to his feet
like chocolate
with no sugar to cull
and humble
the tart
a chocolatier refined yet without history
nor recipe;
definitely not a chocolate-maker
for these are two different things;
the quick man opens
harvested pods are opened
eating it all,
rinds and seeds and pulp
before it liquefies
he thinks to himself,
I will be first,
he picks patience
and shoves it pass his lips
never tasting it
what was once herbal medicine
he sips in a strong hot cup
that burns the tongue
but chills the ribs
when they try to warn him
that too much, of even this treasured sweet
is poison
doesn't bother to laugh at irony
of old men who have tamed the seeds all their life
their laughter light, and creamy
like time
i guess
to a dying man
a sense of
humor is always first to go?
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