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Say It, Sing It

Say I am willing to spill a cup of coffee all over your shirt…, all in the name of oops Say waking up to the smell of Caffeine is the only competitor worthy to bruise the snooze button of an alarm clock Say it, Say I belong To the darkest shade of your outta skin Before you can tear it off to match the complexion of the main character in this scene Of witnessing domineers playing slave to what could have been Say I am ready to be your submissive Your muscles without brains Your black stallion on your most savage moments Like, like instead of being the runaway bride You opt to walk away Say I am ready to be your movie On my mute days of saying nothing But you and you alone get to read the subtitles of my untold story…, verbally spoken Your DSTV explorer when you want to pause live transmission of what is currently going over to you Rewind and select which language you want to hear it coming from me French: Je t’aime Spanish: Te quiero German: Ich liebe dich Croatian: Volim te Italian: Ti amo Portuguese: Eu te amo English: I love you Ke ya o rata, that is in my mother tongue Sesotho Say my life is in your finger tips Say yes, you can touch my hair, invade my space and speak life where I left clues of death having a way with me The death toll rising like heavy floods colliding with a reservoir but the flow Being a tar road Say I want I and I to be your Noah And you can be my arch And together the becoming of what is yet to be written about shall happen there and then… Building you, was already a way out A piece of hope but only work is the only thing standing between you and becoming true The agony, filling my soul up That faith, never shows up nor never does it leave He moves when you pray, that’s how it has always have been Say, I will take Bible classes for you , because I want to get it right Walk in the footsteps of Jacob Have an attention to detail like Boath These men got the chance to do, what they had to do when they were still alive Sing it The gospel of our love is ready to be sang Sing it, out loud So that those who have not

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