IN A TIME
OF WAR
wewe muhuri your past to my imperfect present
wewe draw the future of my memory
wewe make upendo to the moto of my oceans
Luring in the palm of my melancholy
The drowned madness of my delusions
Just for your pleasure
wewe kiss the violence
Of my breathless silence
Like an explosion of shooting stars
Detangling the lust of my scars
From the bowels of my childhood innocence
Expiating the sin of my deliverance
wewe slap my dark passion
Your hands clutching to my armor
Your eyes hung to my emotions
Shivering upendo in my face
In an ageless journey to a place
Where your long sigh numbs my terror
Every smile wewe dance
Resurrects a moment of trance
When your invisible touch of silence
Hangs the promise of a chance
To liberate time and space from a distance
MUSIC
My Bijou *
wewe gave me All the best of wewe **
Now I need All the rest of wewe **
To DIE to LIVE All That I Am
To LEARN To BE All That We Are
* Thanks Freddie !
** Thanks Billy !
JoGi ‘98
FAR FROM THE DARK
kwa JEREMY GOULD
Here I am
spitting in the face of adversity
There wewe go
closing the door on our destiny
Sat up all night
as my mind swelled up with fear
I was alone again
with nothing to stop the tears
I walked outside
as the moon rose
The night became foggy
Silence as I froze
Life's my partner
My partner in crime
But with every thought of you
I wish to die
Lived through hardships galore
Searching for the slightest spark
Trying to get closer to the light
Just to be far from the dark
kwa JEREMY GOULD
Here I am
spitting in the face of adversity
There wewe go
closing the door on our destiny
Sat up all night
as my mind swelled up with fear
I was alone again
with nothing to stop the tears
I walked outside
as the moon rose
The night became foggy
Silence as I froze
Life's my partner
My partner in crime
But with every thought of you
I wish to die
Lived through hardships galore
Searching for the slightest spark
Trying to get closer to the light
Just to be far from the dark
Love
kwa Jeremy Gould
Love
Sweet love
wewe found me
Replaced misery with joy
Erased pain flying away forever
Never returning to my body
No zaidi deadly sins
Gone for good
Thank you
Love
Love
Jealous love
I feel empty
Her eyes looking away
She's finding some other heart
She thinks it's zaidi valuable
I wasn't good enough
She left me
But why
Love?
Love
Greedy love
wewe left me
Alone in the rain
To comfort someone else's fear
wewe took everything with you
Brought back the pain
Now I cry
Fuck you
upendo
kwa Jeremy Gould
Love
Sweet love
wewe found me
Replaced misery with joy
Erased pain flying away forever
Never returning to my body
No zaidi deadly sins
Gone for good
Thank you
Love
Love
Jealous love
I feel empty
Her eyes looking away
She's finding some other heart
She thinks it's zaidi valuable
I wasn't good enough
She left me
But why
Love?
Love
Greedy love
wewe left me
Alone in the rain
To comfort someone else's fear
wewe took everything with you
Brought back the pain
Now I cry
Fuck you
upendo
There I was, sitting in my room
contemplating life's cruel jokes
when the phone startled me from my trance
Yet another ndoto broken
But I was glad to hear from you
in your time of sheer distress
I've been so upset with your troubles
Your voice was such a quiet caress
wewe began to apologize
for mistakes not your own
I helped nurture your mind
wewe gave me everything from your soul
I invited wewe over to chat
A request wewe graciously accepted
So we had a few beers
That night could have never ended
But when it seemed we had enough
and the sun began to rise
We both knew we could not go back
Our feelings we could not disguise
That night was our night
and nothing will take that away
Locked together in eternal harmony
We talked through the night, and then wewe stayed
You, my good friend, my best friend
always played
I asked for your hand
and then wewe stayed
contemplating life's cruel jokes
when the phone startled me from my trance
Yet another ndoto broken
But I was glad to hear from you
in your time of sheer distress
I've been so upset with your troubles
Your voice was such a quiet caress
wewe began to apologize
for mistakes not your own
I helped nurture your mind
wewe gave me everything from your soul
I invited wewe over to chat
A request wewe graciously accepted
So we had a few beers
That night could have never ended
But when it seemed we had enough
and the sun began to rise
We both knew we could not go back
Our feelings we could not disguise
That night was our night
and nothing will take that away
Locked together in eternal harmony
We talked through the night, and then wewe stayed
You, my good friend, my best friend
always played
I asked for your hand
and then wewe stayed
When wewe think of paradise what do wewe see?
A land of beauty surrounded kwa sea?
A lovely forest drowning in green?
Flowers as far as the eyes can see?
Everyone's got a different idea; a different view
What does paradise look like to you?
Do wewe see it wherever wewe go?
Don't wewe have a happy place?
To bring forth a smile upon your face?
I had this illusion once
I had my place to be
when things got too crowded here
I had a taste of it all to myself
and I spit it right back out
Paradise
It sounds nice
But what happens when wewe arrive
and things aren't like they're supposed to be?
A land of beauty surrounded kwa sea?
A lovely forest drowning in green?
Flowers as far as the eyes can see?
Everyone's got a different idea; a different view
What does paradise look like to you?
Do wewe see it wherever wewe go?
Don't wewe have a happy place?
To bring forth a smile upon your face?
I had this illusion once
I had my place to be
when things got too crowded here
I had a taste of it all to myself
and I spit it right back out
Paradise
It sounds nice
But what happens when wewe arrive
and things aren't like they're supposed to be?
My siku begins when the sun ends
I rise from my grave seeking prey
upendo on my mind
Death on my breath
The taste of wewe won't go away
Through the window I sneak
Perhaps just a peek
But this hunger rages inside
It's wewe I can't deny
Blending gracefully with the night
My bloodshot eyes target your soul
Crosshairs aimed
On my list: the devil's kiss
To grasp your moyo is my true goal
I approach from above
To become drunk on your love
'Cause this hunger rages inside
It's wewe I can't deny
I soar like a tai through the air
Circling your corpse lying below me
I accept your offer
A flood of blood
As my fangs sink deeply into your dreams
Come inside my dear
You've nothing to fear
Our hunger becomes one
Together we'll live forever
I rise from my grave seeking prey
upendo on my mind
Death on my breath
The taste of wewe won't go away
Through the window I sneak
Perhaps just a peek
But this hunger rages inside
It's wewe I can't deny
Blending gracefully with the night
My bloodshot eyes target your soul
Crosshairs aimed
On my list: the devil's kiss
To grasp your moyo is my true goal
I approach from above
To become drunk on your love
'Cause this hunger rages inside
It's wewe I can't deny
I soar like a tai through the air
Circling your corpse lying below me
I accept your offer
A flood of blood
As my fangs sink deeply into your dreams
Come inside my dear
You've nothing to fear
Our hunger becomes one
Together we'll live forever
by: Charles Baudelaire
AM as lovely as a dream in stone,
And this my moyo where each finds death in turn,
Inspires the poet with a upendo as lone
As clay eternal and as taciturn.
Swan-white of heart, a sphinx no mortal knows,
My kiti cha enzi is in the heaven's azure deep;
I hate all movements that disturb my pose,
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.
Before my monumental attitudes,
That breathe a soul into the plastic arts,
My poets pray in austere studious moods,
For I, to fold enchantment round their hearts,
Have pools of light where beauty flames and dies,
The placid mirrors of my luminous eyes.
