Dialogue - a Discourse
Where Raleigh wrote on regal window pane
I will embark to swim
She warns me that the kelp will disdain
The journey hard and grim
But all because you call again, and call
Beyond the brim where ships enthralled
Have floundered, I am challenged to rise
And show nobility frugal fire of the eyes.
So here me dive from my high vaulted cliff
And splash salt waters sum
To the sky ... yeah, feel me the burning spliff
The chant of natal freedom
Moving through the clogging stream of despair
I am seeking shore because you are there
Making loud strokes so in the night you will hear
Broken shards of silence, love vaulting here.
O darn, how frigid cold the water frolics my skin
I did not weep all this alone
This ocean is the tears of all my friends and kin
O God hear me from your throne
Keep that rope of faith dangling down, something
In a man that mettles more than courage, she
Too the apple of your eye, lend us all your wing
I swim for redemption through your blood from Calvary.
Your eyes shall be the lighthouse of my weary soul
Your voice my fairest rise of tide
Out from the doldrums I put off despair for sun's gold
Swimming against the kelp of pride
But mark my strokes, the slant and set of my endeavor
Mark my belief ... a man earns only where he labors
And I understand that your role must make my surrender
Impossible ... the course I take is self sustained with rigors
Copyright © L'Nass Shango | Year Posted 2009
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