They say you be gone Joy
She be gone they say
And I asks them
Would you be content if they told you, your joy be gone
Would you continue to inhale this dead life into you?
I say be more alive than life itself
Joy be the music in my soul and I dance to her
I dance till my feet move, till they looks me in the eye and shake their heads
You be here Joy,
Joy you be gone
You be here, I feel you Joy, you be here
You be Alive
You be gone
She done leave you they say
I say Joy would never leave me
She be the sunshine, she be sweet like Honey old folk music
I have seen slaves move to her beat
Honey my joy be fireflies, my joy flies
She be here
Joy be here
What if Joy be all these diary pages I's been ripping off?
What if she….
Maybe mama be right……..Joy gone
Joy not here
My womb too bitter for Joy
She be gone

I knew the feel of paridise, the day you held me in your arms,
pulling me close to this ethreal world that only existed at the edges of my fantasies
That stormy night  we conceived a bond,
I remember you rested your head on my womb and named her dawn,
you said someday our dawn would come,
Some day I will hold you before them,  right under the harvest moon
they will let me dance with you....
In all truth never in my life had I been in the presence of royalty,
walked down the red carpet till the very hour I laid my eyes on you,
the sight of you, the idea of you......
Never in my life had I seen the perfect setting of a sun, sea gulls fleeting through the skies, purple blue birds midsky.....
Oh my my my a black prince had just kissed somewhere inside of me
I knew the feel, the sound, the taste of paridise the day our hearts embraced like the skies embrace the seas,
I could swear I saw them kissing, toungues dancing, exchanging breathes conceiving the perfect horizon
Me and you afar in the horizon shadowing my mind,
like the desert sands embrace the rains letting them belong, burying them somewhere deep within....I knew.



no words......

He said, to be with you
beside you, having you carry my seed would have been the honor
Watching you, exist with me inside of you, you don't understand
They'll never understand…….you, how much I feel for you
You are three ladies in one, many days an less nights
An African goddess, you hold moons, your eyes……I cannot bear to look into
****, looking into them eyes of yours is like looking at a thousand fireflies in harmony
In agreement with this mere in me that  we beheld beautiful
He said, turn around and face me
Let the stars pause in their quest, moons behold you
Let dawn make her entrance earlier and still she won't come close  to you, no she cannot compete
Nothing comes close to you…….no…….nothing
For you hold more grace and class than any other creature thats walked the face of the earth
See you have this pride, this je se nais quoi that no one else possesses
when I see you….
Ladies and gentleman I stood there knees shaking, heart pounding
This man knew how to string words, to pick em like one would pick a rose come to me
present them an say these I picked for you, they remind me of you, for like them you are forever
He knew how to cater sweet poetry to a woman
I blushed
Studying the art in his gaze,
he took a breathe
He said, how many times must I tell you, kissing you, holding you is like that of a rose
it lingers, stays with me, keeps me wide awake
I am more aware of you, your presence, your existence more than I have been of any other woman
You are bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh my Eve, my Rachel, my Rebecca
Mother of my offspring, lover of my soul, Nakupenda milele

no words