...On A Naked Tree w/Langston Hughes
For our forgotten past
:
:
:
It’s Early mourning ecstacy as love lies next to me.
I invests in these times that help to ease minds...
See, last night love made me melt in three lines;
That breathless haiku, had brought light through
The shades of a hopeless life, bruised.. by hatred.
Love will help me to make it trough the frustration
So I can lay here with passion blazed in my head,
But there’s work to do, so love raised from my bed
& before leaving, love gave a kiss to ease the sins
And then; love is what I never saw breath again...
Way Down South in Dixie
(break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree.
I lay here thinking about love & when it will be back
And I can clearly see that love has got me trapped
But I don’t want to escape this sea that... has me..
Bound, but happy...Laughing at sounds of classy,
And slow love making that is ssoooo above faking.
“Sincere in every way”; I think, as the day stream,
I’ve been laying here hours; as lazy as it may seem
When the phone wakes me from my daydreams...
I picked up the receiver, and soon, I seeped a tear...
The message killed me slowly as it reached my ear.
Way Down South in Dixie
(Bruised body, high in the air)
I asked the white lord Jesus
What was the use of prayer.
Tears smother my cheeks as I walk a road of dirt.
My soul is hurt & slow to flirt with hopes of falsehood.
I know the call was true, so I head for the tall wood
Beyond the edge of the road; where they all stood
.. All the bystanders that gathered around this tree of evil
Then I slowly proceed to creep to the sea of people
When they notice me, and split open so I could see in
And my eyes rose from the dirt road, to that deep skin-
.. That deep skin of my love.. I break down as I draw closer
.. No reason to live.. See, love died that day in October..
Way Down South in Dixie
(break the heart of me)
Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.
:
:
:
...My love.
-October 28th, 1969-
Reply With Quote
