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1994 POETRY BY ADELLE ONYANGO

from SOUND COLLAGE BEAT TAPE by ERIC ONASIS

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POETRY BY ADELLE ONYANGO, BEAT BY ERIC ONASIS

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1994 POETRY BY ADELLE ONYANGO

Flesh split into bars

Different chambers within one star

16bars and concrete walls separate each prison

Wooden signs on each, voice captivity’s reason.

Dark skinned prisoners with blinding bright minds

Whose bony fingers snapped shut the locks in a history bound by time.

A time when fear had marched majestically creating a beat for all to dance

A choreographed movement that held all in a hopeless trance.

Magnified maps of my insides unearth a boulevard of signs

Some on wooden plaques, some metal, a kaleidoscope of different kinds.

No men allowed. No fat men allowed. No light-skinned fat men past this point.

No tasks allowed. No new tasks allowed. No challenging new tasks past this point.

No room for strength in this area.

No healing, no erasing the past, no room to feel better.

The signs were firmly rooted in the earth of my skin

Because it’s easier to lose and scary to try and win.

So I harbour this workforce of oppression and apartheid

With no air of a 1994 able to raid

My conscious and set alight a yearning for liberty

A call for a revolution where I’d marshal my senses and plan the murder of conformity.

And they’d chant my definitions and swear oaths of no surrender.

In the market place of my soul there’d be stories of this new Mandela.

I would marshal all the forces within, prepare them to be ready to kill, ready to die

To protect at all costs, the definition of I.

I snap back into reality, where I’ve stalled.

A prisoner and a warden look identical.

Calls to freedom travel off lips to ears on the same head.

Meditating on what the captives in my soul have just said.

In the court of my spirit the past defends its importance

The present begs for just one chance

And the future, well the future sits back and chuckles at me

Because its 26th April 1994 and tomorrow freedom comes to be!

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from SOUND COLLAGE BEAT TAPE, released October 8, 2012
POETRY BY ADELLE ONYANGO, BEAT BY ERIC ONASIS

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