Exonerated
(for Del)
-
To be sung in part
1.
i
visited him once…
and
slept in his guest bed,
after
spending an entire night awake
slaying
visionary dream dragons from the head:
i had to practice a whole bunch to be human again
he
said,
after
he had died to be
reborn
a brand new song;
My
Chicago friend, Delbert Tibbs -
God
did defend and exonerate with
a
poem from death row so that he could
one
day meet me and celebrate;
The
prophetic ghostly face of Jim Crow
appeared
on the horizon once more:
What
is the price of years taken from a man’s fleeting life?
"Eenie
meenie minie mo, catch a nigga by his toe, if he hollas..."
A
poet that would not sell his sovereign immortal soul -
They
captured him and did not want to let him go;
He
had to drown in the Mississippi River,
crucified
upon the pain of a Klu Klux Klan burning
Florida
cross so that we could one day sing our poems together,
Our
friendship of SOULular kinship.
2.
To
be human is a practice not many are willing to do,
the
sleepwalkers and blind night stalkers of this world,
Those
others incarcerated and confined in the prison -
of
mind un-refined;
Tears
fell from my eyes as i viewed this,
no,
i drank, and i tasted this...
"Amazing
grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me…"
This
is a man that will never grow old and die,
for
he has escaped the bondage of time;
A
persistent HUman Tai-Chi-ing,
a
Holy martial arts of all the Sacred parts that make the whole complete,
and
there can be no regrets on behalf of any atomic particle included -
This
kaleidoscopic Cosmic OMniversal Quilt…
His
cloud of unknowing became our secular and Spiritual disclosing,
A
racist distortion transformed into heroic radiant Nubian proportion,
The
lethargic crawling caterpillar transmuted -
into
awesome, mystical, Multi-Colored, Butterfly Man;
"I
once was lost but now I’m found, was blind but now I see…"
What
makes my friend so great is his humility and love for humanity,
but
of course, IAM not so humble,
because
i could have portrayed him better than the great -
Delroy Lindo...
SIAM
11.02.2009
- 11.01 am
