they've been spending most their lives / iving in a future paradise
they've been looking in their minds / for the day that sorrow's lost from time
—stevie wonder, pastime paradise

i am led to wonder why i 
still liv oppressed 	shakkld to
profit-komplyant ideaz uv living

motive interestz tethered to productz, to
enslavedflesh konsumerized century upon century 
konfessing allegiance to demonokracy 

merchantz pushing vote diskounted emoshunz
livez without thepossibility to klymb hier
than kashregister otherized value 

i am led to wonder why i 
knowing elite material lifestyle levelz uv want bought
on minimumwage stipendz numbing thebody & killing thebrain

myhueman dimenshunz aflame
challenging tym & space
in grayc & gratitude

i am led to wander — i
dont chooz to have mylabor kolonized, chooz not 
to bekum an extrakted natural resource 

pilferred body for a futre mychildren kant liv with
held kaptiv to ideaz that lie & rape & skrayp theirsoulz 
uv lifez lite-generaytd sovereignty

i am led to wander whyl i 
burst free frum this kaptiv ekonomik order uv thotbound 
religus behaviorz & spiritchal diskontent struktured in stripjoyntz 

uv stolenlegacy, no agency living sequestered without 
queschuning komplyance-kompromized-konstitushun-failure
to fite for therite to be thelite 

i know i waz born into
& havgrown up & out uv triknologyz
to be  
 
a streaming frum everypore inna uni/verse uv
song singing choozing to be therite rather than not
to be singing in thelifegiving choir uv waterz

i am led to wander whyl i 
stretch frum frum valley floor to mountainpeak
across a greatdivide free frum river to the sea

frum indeterminate spellz 
dependent on robberbarronz 
uv thebodymind 

i am led to wander whyl i 
walk thewater drinking in therain 
i see, i arize, i gather thegreater we toheart 

self-owned  
living intimate innerstanding 
uv thewunness uv thevery uv thingz seen & unseen

whyl iyam led to wander knowing i 
walk worldz withgrayc hearing an ancestralchoir 
singing an illuvialchant, singing myheart open 

2 . . . 
we be starz bound to bodyz 
the highest knowledge is unutterable
—billy carson

i am led to wonder why
mypeepl liv oppressed livez 
profit-komplyant with motive 
interestz tethered to produce 
enslavedflesh who century 
after century konfess
allegiance to

demokracy merchantz
pushing diskounted layaway livez
on minimumwage stipendz without 
thepossibility to klymb to 
elite lifestyle levelz 
festering mindz

hueman dimenshunz kanceled 
in time & space, in grace 
& gratitude

i am led to wonder why
mypeepl choose to have their labor 
extrakted their natural resourcez pilferred
theirbodyz & their childrenz futurez
held kaptiv to ideaz that rape 
their soulz sovereignty  
 
i am led to wonder why
kaptivz to an ekonomik order uv 
religus behaviorz / thotbound strukturez 
drunk in stripjoyntz stolenagency 
deny theyre living owned 
& bound to godz uv 
otherzmaking

why thezepeepl
donot queschun their komplyance
why they fail to fite for the rite to be, simply
to chooz to be rather than not to be 

i am led to wonder why
mypeepl kannot see, kannot arize 
why we allow the self uv us to be owned, to
possess no truuidentity worth dying for 
no intimate konnekshun to a life
worth truly living for 
life konnekted to 
thewun 

what kan we say, who kan we kallon
a god, an avatar, a kulture, a language not
ourown, a fleshtone denigayshun uv thepeepl we
wunce were & krawlingbak to be

krawling frum pseudo agency unable to free the we uv 
us frum this spell uv indeterminate dependence 
on what haz robbed ourbodyz uv soulpower 
& daily unleashez spiritmurder
against afrikanidentity

why do we
whose living stretchez 
frum sea to sea akross an 
intimate sentientglobl network 
 a diasporik chayn uv 
ancestorwitness 

why we be more komplicit komplyant 
subjekt more to go along just to get along   
than to plumb within & pushbak with intent 
& force against this understanding 
standing under sumotherz 
mental meditayshun az 
aberrantthot

living out the darknight uv thesoul 
why do we not  
klearly state an identity  
aligned to uni/versal afrikan
principlez uv family sovereignty
instead uv this kolonized 
state uv allegiant 
dementia 

denying our bornness relayted to
everyother planetary sentient  

why do we not klaym thebreath uv 
life ourown inherited wealth
our interdependent health 

not independence az thepolitik uv skintrade
a game uv holding truthz to be 
selfevident . . . that aint 
evident

when there iz no evidence uv 
this az truth — the integral order 
uv theze emptywordz / theze simple 
soundz uv mayhem manifesting
programmed existence

posthumous — postthis 
to your facebook instagram linkedin pagez
see who rayzez a balledfist az an ourown instrument 

generayted salvayshun 
relayshunship with whatthereiz 
thatbe kozmikally galaktikly divine  
cykling systemz 
starz planetz asteroydz 
heavenly bodyz beltz uv wonder 
wandering intentchunally intelligent 
thru innerstanding spacetime dimenshunz

a riteheaded analysis refuzing 
to deny itz ownrite to hueman dignity
fraility in thechayn uv being alrite beyond
our whitespace komprehenshun
uv thewun & only self un
folded in thebody uv 
theeach everyness
uv everywun

firstkauz kommandment life 
liv—not a livgood lifestyle, not a
liv komfortabl, livsekure 
but livfree

liv simply
keep breathing & prokreayting
working toward innerstanding life
breathing yu into each moment more 
abundant, more aligned more felt 
more attuned to lifez self 	
liv sovereign, afrikan
liv stateless
liv free