LIGHT SEED
(est 2013)

It was time to be raised from the dead
So I became the full moon at midnight
The only light in darkness
You lost
So my skies kissed your mornings, now earth cannot be severed from me
You famished
My sole tree carries forest to feed all mouths that are starving
You forgot home
I sun blinding gold, tsunami wave, tornado blew
And you again remembered to worship Orisha in We


Then they
Rubber bullet tear gas skull crack our hearts
So we, veteran herd halt all pollutant Standing Rock pipeline planning
Depressed blade nears wrist vein
I the very breath that pushed suicide away
They noose brutalize incarcerate murder torture our fathers
My brown rhythm haunts them in every beautiful song they’ll ever sing
Apocalypse becomes hopeless mind of the masses
I am the one who KNOCKS them awake


As if enslaved children had not sewn our imported clothing
As if white hood endorsed coward had not become (temporary) patriot leader
As if rainforests not burnt to stinking ash and sewage dumped in our oceans so fast food steak could be $5 for your eating
As if murderous men, in a spiritual coma, had not built this perceived debt we call democracy


As if we had an option to not be anything but a Love Army.



I know sometimes it feels like you're the only one who survived
With a million stories scribed in native tongue behind your eye
As if you could possibly remain small
As if you could be contained by vessel
As if measureless me might muster the words I can't
As if our ancestors didn't strive and survive so that we could be
We occupy Mexican soil
Nos sentamos en tierras indígenas
And their people have often said
"They tried to bury us
but forgot we were seeds."

"They tried to bury us
but forgot we were seeds."


Goddess sister reminds all you must do is believe
And we’ve built Everything on this
thought
to word
to action
Life is ACTION
Life is a dare at how Legendary you could be

So I became the full moon at midnight
It is time to be raised from our dead
For any darkness
any darkness
any darkness
can be canceled by one Light Seed.

Asé.