respiration

Go get yourself some fresh air

Never meant to see you everytime

You been having the worst day

Hope my presence can deliver something great

More uplifting than current malaise

Always feels like a bunch of malarkey

That leads to contemporary fuckery

Facing forwards towards a future

That doesn’t want me to occupy a critical space

In the people’s ongoing narrative

Extremely feeble attempts at countering

Prevailing myths over where you should be headed

For lack of better words you been condemned

As a community garden making way for

Commercial real estate that will contaminate

Corrupt the native culture categorically

Castrated and confined to corner’s comfort

Keep biting your nails to get down to the nubs

Nobody wants to be cut open deep beneath

The skin at least the nipples need to be rubbed

Seduced into accepting raw deal where your feelings

Don’t make any sense to the powers that be

At least entertain while you educate

So your corny facts about freedom’s attainment

Will be nothing to laugh at or sneeze about

God blessed you with all that good luck

You know nothing ever happens by chance

Different circumstances dealt so you find you

Believe in your core convictions as you

Stumble down a path already promised

You would arrive safely but passage won’t be easy

Finding the groove beneath your asymmetrical heartbeat

Repetition is the mother of emphasis

Analysis of bottom basis static status

Certain cases nothing is for sure

Questions create stimulating tension to grab yours

At once considered so smart

Even dunces know where they stand

Confused by your origins in this land

When you don’t belong to any slice of earth

Much as the world is owed to you

With no shred of obligation

Such is the paradox of our tenuous existence

With such resistance to what is naturally given

Draw power from your tradition

Push past tragedy

Embrace the inevitable quit your bitching

Finally start living your own life

If the planet is in your hands

How would you hug it to show some love

Or rock it gently to sleep

If you gathered a beloved audience

What carefully chosen words would you speak?