By Unblind Africanus
Imagine
absolute darkness
Through
which your eyes could only see
Obscurity
The
full light spectrum
Evaporated
into a section
As
the pineal gland pushes manifestations
And
absorbs all light, hence we dark
Shinning
obscurity
Enlightened
divinity
From
progenator to progeny
Kemetically
embedded
Genetically
perpetuated philosophy
So
my nats contracted
And
no lye can substitute for my heritage connected
Heat
conducted
Sun
rays absorbed
So
we ain’t hyphenated
But
“hyper-melanated”
Multi-faceted
metabolisms
Djembes
determine the hearts rhythm
All
deficiencies are mel-anomalies
The
sounds of thoughts dissipate earthly tonalities
Enriching
monotonous trivialities
Caught
in the prism of our divining melanin
Solutions
lie in sinking beyond the skin
Digging
Into
multiple levels of interior lining
Reflected
in the minds chemical combining
So
we vegetarian carnivores
Unnatural
reservoirs
For
those lacking divining melanin
In
the frailness of un-thick skin
Little
do they know that our thickness of completion
Lies
without and within
Carbon
bonded to our melanin
Carbon bonded to our melanin.
By Unblind Africanus, Toronto, Canada
inspired by “melanites”.
"Unblind Uncut-live from the T-dot" CD released on 27th Oct 2001. The CD was also one of the three final Spoken Word nominees for a Canadian UMAC (Urban Music Association of Canada) award in 2002. Winner of the Editor's Choice Award for outstanding achievement in poetry presented by the International Library of Poetry in October 2001 and was published, along with other talented poets, in their publication "The Harvest of Dreams". In 2003 Unblind was one of the featured artists on CBC Newsworld, as an entertainer on the show 'Play'. He is the 2002 and 2003 winner of the 'Grand Toronto Slam', and featured in 'Up From The Roots' production of "When Brother Speak" at St Lawrence Theatre in 2002. Unblind was the featured poet in the cultural magazine 'Ambassador' in December 2002. He was also featured in the 'All African Student's Conference' in Kingston Jamaica in May 2003. Visit him at http://www.unblind.net.