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O’ Africa (The Lion Roars) - Cannonsfire and Tomisb, Collaboration
You know brother calls to brother and blood is answered by blood.
When the moon grows white and fills the sky so all the shadows are pale,
you can feel the forever that pours into the land. How it captures
the rhythmn of the universe.The animals call out the song of a world
come home on the black seas of the night that is vibrant and strong
ready to contest the bright beats of a roaring sun. The lion roars.
The jackels run. In the tent by the fire you curl closer to my heat.
The savannah beats with the pulse of my heart and stellar winds
come across your skin singing the songs of stars. The lion roars.
You feel your blood pulse with a new aliveness. You feel
the strength of the lion beat like a drum in your skin. The fire
is you. The sound of a river races across my heart. I know you
are full of the raw birth of the heart of man that springs
out of the soil called Africa.
You are a goddess in a long boat carried on the back of crocodiles
as you ride the Nile. You are
the nomad mother carrying her child gathering the vegetation
needed to keep her family alive. You are
the bare feet creating a dance on the good earth singing songs
for a full harvest. You are
the woman in my arms curled close for the night. The lion roars.
The children, not of my belly cry in whimpering. Cubs are dragged
unwillingly from my sight. I am filled by you O Africa; your wet lips
kiss my cheek, the thrum of gentle rain against my heart. I want to share
it with your hands, plunge them deep inside me. All the splendor of gazelle
upon the beating earth. They flee as lion roars.
I am the bend of your will; curvature of your spine. A song sung in chant,
calling me back. Grasp me in your womb and the palm of your hand. Sail me
against the Limpopo’s muddied shores. Make love to me in the richness of
the beauty but tend to me within your poverty and I will still see you smile.
I will still hear you call. The lion roars.
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