IM JUST SAYIN THOUGH
I'M JUST SAYIN' THOUGH
The other day,
A comrade asked me,
“do you need anything?”
I said, “a hug.”
Yet, it’s beyond that.
Though I’m a realist,
understanding the ramifications
of my confinement,
I can’t take the coward’s way.
I must say,
I need affection,
a woman’s caress, and
I want to be held,
with my waves rubbed
‘til I fall asleep.
Then, awaken,
sometimes held,
not always doing the holding.
Bottles of hot water
line my bunk,
like a woman,
between me and the frozen
wall,
keeping me warm at night.
Awakening to a frozen Warden and Major
who feel I should die
before the state takes my life.
Life is more than
merely breathing—
it’s feeling,
feeling in places never known,
with feelings never owned.
THIS
is why my captors
can’t get me to follow their “rules.”
I’m a Man.
Tommie "Casper" Hughes)
I'm just sayin'
what dat wuzz
is reality enclosed within
substantial concrete
and
steel....
that's real--
death is inevitable to
all of us
but
I'm not ready
to die--
I'm just sayin' though,
if I'm dead, if I die
how can you live? How
can you live
without me
when I am you
huh?
...I'm just sayin' though.
(Reginald "Omari" Blanton)
There is NO LIFE nor DEATH "without";
both dwell simultaneously
on the lips of ETERNITY.
Infinite Beings being
Without being without
ONE
another
thinking there's another.
Oceans are Raindrops' brothers,
hand and hand,
pulling each to ONE.
...I'm just sayin' though.
(Casper)
What you got on yo' mind ?
come up
let's remind
what's society's masses
was designed to be,
inclined to see,
and
resigned to being
is indoctrinated
not educated
unaware of the hatred
fated upon us,
you, me,
so we,
ours
could congregate
relate
but
wait...
I'm just sayin' though
(Omari)
Painful ignorance--knowing not the pain
that created our hatred
for the hatred foretold;
our reaping what They sowed,
fast-forwarding growth
through the howling flames of persecution,
we emerged unscathed--
CONSCIOUSNESS burning,
while the Heaven sing
from the mouth of this Phoenix
soaring beyond the Alpha.
...I'm just sayin' though.
(Here's a collaboration I did
with Tommie "Casper" Hughes
before the State killed him.
This is dedicated to him and
his family. Casper, you will
never be forgotten! You will
live through our pain, our struggle.
I'm just sayin' though.