Ises and love.
Give thanks for the Itributions and more love, life and guidance to each and every One.
I was just looking through I flowetry collection, and I realised I actually have a fair few written around this kind of subject, so I'm going to share a few of them:
Iyah guide I from I old corrupted ways
Let I never mix up in this babylon craze
Make every word out of my mouth be praise
As I still recover from the school days
And the time spent drinking beer and burning haze
That did more damage than I ever can appraise
Sometimes you can see it in my gaze
From the distant stare and far away glaze
That I've been lost and twisted in this maze
I've learned the hard way; it never pays
And so I start a fire, set the thing ablaze
To burn every illusion that kept me in a daze
I see it blazing through the dark like sun rays
And Righteousness could never be a phase
So forward ever, backward never, no delays
Word, sound and power, true knowledge in this phrase
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Sometimes late at night I feel my heart pump
And as it beats like a Nyahbinghi drum I feel a lump
Like my energy is getting stuck up in a clump
And if it stays so then I end up in a slump
So I load a chalice, watch my breath, burn the grump
Rise love or else get played like a chump
I'm angry but I can't lash out and thump
I'd end up bad, I'd have to run from cops like Forrest Gump
I'd rather channel it and rise out of the dump
Where every man is just after something to hump
And some don't care if its another mans rump
The poor get skinnier while the rich just get plump
And every week they talk about more hoops to jump
I pray and chant for their plans to get stumped
And see a vision of an Empress with a bump
Whatever babylon plays, Iyah Most High has the trump
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Iyah, help I clear my cluttered mind
Let I hold my peace, relax, breath and unwind
And never slip and start to think unkind
Clear it or else I'm sailing blind
Without a rudder or any clouds silver lined
And myself I'll end up tying in a bind
In mental prisons, plenty find themselves confined
So burn all thoughts from the lowest of mankind
And the worry of 'what if she's the only one I find?'
I know I must let go, all bad thinking left behind
I know my works are already laid out and assigned
So keep I mind on track, let I always stay aligned
To the higher force in life that never has maligned
And forgives I those times I have declined
Or just been lazy, like a brute beast disinclined
Iyah rise I meds, let my life and works stay refined
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Iyah hear I prayer, make the path clear
Let I not stumble and fall like plenty of my peers
Who don't make time for love through all the beer
And can't rise themselves and face up to their fears
Guide them, let this chant reach in their ears
I don't want to see anyone ground up in the gears
Of this mad system that's been holding us for years
To every mystery there is more than there appears
And what we know now isn't even the frontier
I know I've got a mission, I'm a willing volunteer
And I know its not easy, but still I say cheers
Even though most nights I have to give lonely tears
And my bank account never seems to leave arrears
I'll never forget my vows and my locks will never shear
Not for girls or fame or money or even a stable career
Iyah keep my vision clear, wipe away the dirty smears
I know at least the Lion of Judah's been crowned
babylon the beast is flailing and one day it will get downed
The seals loosed already and the scrolls are all unbound
The dollar's falling, next the Euro and the pound
Illusions on illusions, that's all Iyah found
When He came like a thief in the night and looked around
In a Kingly character, in the world He was renowned
Mussolini came to test but Selassie I did rebound
So even when the worst enemies abound and surround
And life tests and turns my soul into a battleground
I know good will always conquer evil and confound
The fear that keeps love locked up and inbound
So I burn all thinking that I know is unsound
And chant it clear, all the truths I will expound
With the thunder of word, power and sound
In the mind, soul and body let it rumble and resound
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I wonder how many would listen to a single mans love song
But burn charts and that crap they play on radio all day long
I'll say what I'll say and what I've known all along
That men aren't meant to think with their john
And women aren't objects to be banged like a gong
I've not always lived it, but Iyah know I was wrong
And I told enough lies just to feel like I belong
I'm done with that, I'll never chase girls in thongs
I've got a heart and brain, don't need to follow my shlong
I know that any bond I make like that is lifelong
So I'll be careful as I move through the throng
Right now seems like I'm waiting in vain like in Bob's song
But like Haile I with Menen I have to find someone strong
I have waking visions of a daughter and a son
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For too long, I treated this task like a trial
And so I have been searching for a while
With still a way to go, if I was walking it'd be miles
To find a virtious woman who's really versatile
Moving with a militant Roots Empress style
Somewhere in these crazy freezing cold ilses
For so long I was bottom of the pile
To I, girls have always been hostile
They saw the natty locks and beard, thought that's vile
Out of most of them, I couldn't even get a smile
So until I knew myself, it didn't even seem worthwhile
To know them, let alone get numbers to dial
But now I see how they were led to revile
Self-hate, it's pressed on them with guile
Girls, know you are lily of the Nile
And like the valley, you are forever fertile
So don't ever let men or women disrespect
Bringing people down is highly suspect
That kind of attention you should always reject
If it was up to me, boys who rape would get wrecked
You're a fool if a good woman you neglect
And a coward if the queens you don't protect
They are our balance, onto them we as men project
Project bare lust, and to that I must object
That's dead, your brain is not erect
And you can't comprehend the dangerous effect
That has on young womens' intellect
So scrub out your dirty mind and disinfect
Don't follow the lowest road, rise and redirect
Trod up mount Zion steps, practice and perfect
That balance known by Haile I and Menen the elect
It is the highest form of love when Man and Woman connect
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I wonder how many would listen to a single mans love song
But burn charts and that crap they play on radio all day long
I'll say what I'll say and what I've known all along
That men aren't meant to think with their john
And women aren't objects to be banged like a gong
I've not always lived it, but Iyah know I was wrong
And I told enough lies just to feel like I belong
I'm done with that, I'll never chase girls in thongs
I've got a heart and brain, don't need to follow my shlong
I know that any bond I make like that is lifelong
So I'll be careful as I move through the throng
Right now seems like I'm waiting in vain like in Bob's song
But like Haile I with Menen I have to find someone strong
I have waking visions of a daughter and a son
And I won't compromise, that trod has already begun
I pray Iyah cut and clear don't make my search prolong
A good woman, dignified and upright is my delight
Kind, loving, humble with heaps of talent and polite
With eyes that shine so bright they can smite
A fire woman who makes all wickedness ignite
She's actually real and her I did invite
But if she was mine I wouldn't be writing this by first light
After holding myself and crying all night
And feeling my soul, mind and body getting wound uptight
And everyone can know that, I don't mind, it's alright
I've got no shining armour and I'm no knight
I just do what I see is right in the Most High's sight
I'm not here to make light of my plight
I bring it forward to kill slackness outright
This talk is realer than any chat about a girl's pussys tight
And the bullshit some men front to impress and excite
That has no place up in mount Zion heights
Blessed love
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