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A Kneeling Man

I feel that I am gone
I feel around the sun
I feel God has no plan
I feel the stars shall fall

I feel I'll break away
I feel I'll touch the earth
I feel I'll rip my shirt
I feel that I shall kneel

Concerning all that’s lost
Let pride find his own way
I guess I'll sing a song
I guess the time has come

I guess I'll pick this dust
I guess I'll kiss the soil
I guess it's time to weep
My tears shall cleanse the world

Let all those that have seen
Let them cry out in grief
Let them sing my chorus
Sometimes I am insane

So why then son why now
Why now do you resist
Since when have you first thought
Thought this is all a waste

I am I was I will
I am the son of sun
I was the kin of moon
I will be seen by all

They all will see the moon
They all will praise the sun
They all will hear my voice
They all shall chant my name

A kneeling man shall seek
A kneeling man shall see
A kneeling man shall find
What we all seek to say

A kneeling man shall hear
A song the moon shall play
A kneeling man shall know
What brought this world to dust

So why then now I ask
Why now do you see fit
Why lust for what can kill
Are you so ignorant?

It’s sad the way you speak
It’s sad to see your eyes
You’ll rip what you will sow
This aint the script to write

Who asked for you to speak
Who asked for your input
This knife that’s in my hand
Shall change the world you know

But son my name is moon
Your kin though you are man
I’ve watched as you have knelt
Just stand remove remorse



This world’s not yours to take
We’ve lost so many years
This world is all that’s left
To right the wrongs we did

Your pride will end us all
Don’t turn your back to me
I’ve watched you while you slept
My blood runs through your veins

Just hear me out will you
You’ll scorch the very earth
The sun won’t be so pleased
You’ll sign your life away

Collating ones own worth
A better man you’ll be
The world shall seek you out
A hero will be born

Let anger wash away
The song I sing to you
Will bring you peace inside
Will heal the wounds you have

Now wait just one more thing
The knife, just leave it here
A pen you might just need
Go teach them all you know

You know now what to say
You’ll say it everywhere
You sing with me you will
We’ll sing the song of words

By A Godlo

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Do You Know

Do you ever consider the wording of core
Do you ever believe that this world will be whole
Do you ever redeem all the lies you have told
Do you wake up one morning believing its gone
Do you fear the sight of a slight opened door
Do you hold on to light cause the darkness is here
Do you know its the mind that will give you the play
Do you know when you smile someone else cries in pain
Do you know that your faith is the one that is fooled
Do you know its the truth that will spawn out this lie
Do you know its the lie that will live deep inside
Do you know that we speak yet we hardly speak out
Do you know we the lie that will spawn out the truth
Do you know its the sadness of never being sure
Do you know that right now I am talking to you
Do you feel its a sin to just lie in this truth
Do you see me one morning forgetting to wave
Do you see that I saw but will never admit
Do you sit with regret and regret makes you see

Bu Athi Godlo

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Where the Heart Is

Everybody is born crying
At least give me the freedom to die laughing
Never in defiance no never in fear
But in pure unadultrated happiness

Let all the decisions, choices, mistakes
Fall in meaningless puddles of stagnant water
And let me just soar with the ecstacy of thundering waves
Basking in deep ululations of dancing tear drops

From the deepest forests of Central Africa
Crossing the golden plains of southern Africa
Besting the dryest parts of northen Africa
Let me smell the freedom which has long eluded mankind

Let me sit down and smoke a pipe with my friends
And share all the stories that brought us to be
Its simple and yet its so hard to achieve
To be humble and yet to be more than we please

Take me home oh I'm asking the heavens to see
That we walk through this life wearing borrowed shoes
Take me home Oh Im begging my friends need to see
How I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy to be

Everybody is born through pain
Let me die with pleasure
And look up at the faces of all those I love
And see their joy, their pride, their happiness that I had lived

Kilimanjaro


By Athi Godlo

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Our Minds

We will forever be carrying the lamp of redemption
On top of the high seas we utter in silence
That we are the misers the lepers of instinct 
We sit through the words of the beaten the battered
The movement will cry out that we have forsaken
The burdens of culture in structure we cry out
We shall listen to those that are thrown in the deep end
We always will be but never to be uttered
Our hearts will be born from the minds of shattered
Forgotten we are through the sound of an echo
So let me be brief be more truthful than white light
You will only see us when you have your eyes closed
We will never be more than what we are in pages
In stages of if, when and then the conclusion
To serve is a cause never to be repeated
And let us be frank we will never be seated
Glory to those that have been solely structured
It matters to them that we look to the learned
Compounded we are but never to be bounded 
Yet grounded we be through the minds of the founders

By Athi godlo

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So Long

So long Tommorrow
Shine So brightly
Live so freely
Cry together
Laugh so deeply
Smile Forever
Be What you can
Be Believe in
You Shall bring us
Pride Forever
And I cannot
Bend To sunset
End All Things
Before They begin
Show Some mercy
Hold On to me

I salute You briefly
We are One No leaving
We will Talk So subtly
We shall Hold So tightly
Find Me wanting
Touch So softly
Breathe So camly
Give Me hope to
Want So subtly
Yes I'll follow
You So Swiftly
Kneel Before us
Let us guide you
Wash Away your
fears be complete
Grab on to me
Guide My feelings
Set Me free
to Wash Away 
the Sins Of all 
That hurt us on the
shores of winter
Never Once
Ill forget
times According
Bring Me joy to
Grasp this setting
I submit This column
Birds Are chirping
Clouds Are parting
Suns Are rising
Win Ters Falling
Storms Are ending
Men Are rising
Oh This freedom
This is you
No conflict
This is me
No deceipt
This is US
Be simple

By Athi Godlo

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The Skeptic

This sorrow is hollow in truth I am borrowed
Dont ever recall me with witness I'll follow
With constance I'll call out, the heavens in echoes
Oh save me I'm falling the broken shall honour
Their master dont bother redeem us they call out
It's painful to speak when this hunger it sets in
The children shall scuffle and ruffle their feathers
It matters so let us they'll get us and set us
On fire they'll burn us to turn us against us
And blame us with honours they'll call us
To show us they moan us in rafters
And then I will ask you to
See us believe us it withers we figure
That we are in rivers Please see us dont leave us
With pleasure we'll give up and give up with pleasure

Don't call me to tell me you sorry
Oh glory depict all the stories
Don't hold me just scold me
I cannot describe this This feeling if only
They told me the story of how I was holy
Control me they showed me how I was so lonely
Know that I was born on the doorsteps of sorrow
Just constantly furrowed by mindz that are shallow
In angst I will cry out in breath I will whisper
I have to beseech you and leave you within you
We see through through the issues and feed you induce you
Then you look whose thorugh you
Whofooled you to lose you
Then whose who when fools lose who could do what you drew
And paged through these fools who reviewed you and drew doom
They tried to erase you the graze you to faze you

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Masibambane

Masibambane
We move
We look
We seek
You know we are
Masibambane
We meet
On days
These days 
we'll touch the stars
Masibambane
I know the set
In sense
We'll never fall
Masibambane
And everything that we have built above
The world
Of the children come with me
We'll move the world
in time we shall go on hand in hand
to build the truth
Masibambane
And never once I'll tell you never shine
Masibambane
With confidence we'll fight the war of words
Masibambane
A future never entering the dark
Masibambane
With light we'll carve the path and reproduce
Masibambane
The time when gods spoke not only the truth
Masibambane
We feel the pain of all that came before
Our Birth
Shall redeem our future even though its gone
Amongst
all the veterans the so called future crowns
They seek
What forever we have treasured in the core
To know
It is fools among us fools we'll never know
The sign
Though so brightly lit it's dimming in the heart
Masibambane
And siblings let them gather in the soul
Masibambane
In the valley of the Gods
Masibambane
In the valley of the Gods
Masibambane
In the valley of the Gods
Masibambane
In the valley of the Gods
The dust 
Of the faries let it light up in the sky
The elves
Of the forest let them wander on shore
Believe
On the goodness men will rise up to be seen
The end 
Will not come from anything that we have seen
So look
Up in heavens that is where we'll meet our fate
So live
And forever sing the joy thats in your heart
Masibambane
In the valley of the Gods
Masibambane
In the valley of the Gods

By Athi Godlo

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Let Me Tell You a Story

Let me tell you a story of how I became me 
And grace you with words that define me inside me 
I was born on the rivers of sorrow and sadness 
Through valleys of grief stricken pain and remorse 
And when I opened my eyes for the first time awareness 
I cried while they wept and I stood without movement 
Then I came to my senses and saw that they saw me 
And yes they rejoiced though their eyes told me different 
If then I knew what would happened then maybe just maybe 
They opened the door to all the sickness and anguish 
My birth was so simple though torment was right there 
Let me tell you the time when they thought to define me 
A boy that was lost on the desert of envy 
Thats when I fooled and I flirted with danger by strangers 
And tasting the fruit of illusion in segments 
The desert it showed me what sin really felt like 
That's when the heat made me drop to one knee I had hope then 
And watched how it took all the joy that I nurtured 
In disbelief I looked straight at the source of my sadness 
And cowered, a dog with no master to guide it 
The buildings around me remind me of mother 
So cold and aloof and so distant yet striking 
Let me tell you the time when I thought that I knew me 
I found myself in a forest where I watched all my sins 
I basked in the depth of my darkness with gladness 
And deeper I swam while my youth became distant 
I felt out of touch yet in touch with my true self 
And day in day out I played chess with regret 
Then I sat in the four cornes of resentment 
I watched calmly at the birth of my first one 
She cried while I wept and she saw that I saw 
I rejoiced though my eyes told her different

By Athi Godlo

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Someone

Someone
Somewhere
Met something
And for some reason
He somehow
Froze
So says some
In a time where man gets reconstructed
Physically modified
Mentally damaged
Where some and one
Plural and singular
Join to make an unknown person
Someone
Where some and how
Answer and question
Join to make confusion
Somehow
Well sometimes some things
Are somehow set so simply 
Such that they make sense 
See you say simple sentences 
Simply to sow seeds of self
Satisfaction by sacrificing
Sodomised septic singular
Stories sampling songs sung
By sirens in sweeping swirling syllabuses 
So sound a singular soul
When certainty states surrender
Of some.
Thus one some
Where some
Thing some met
Reason some for and
How some he froze.

By Athi Godlo

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The Skeptic Part 2

Perpertual this story the breakdown of Sally
The year it was only the start of a winter
The irony offers a semblance of virtue
Oh creatures of man why do they always hurt you
The thickness of skin can be broken by whispers
The scars that they set are the scars that define us
Be vigil my child cause the night is upon us
The prophets will flounder and then they will call you
Please save us oh sally the blindness it hurts us
Forgive them forgive them I ask you to teach them
Believe them believe them campassion becomes you
And then you will find them and guide them to save them
Perhaps you will wonder is this what you paid for
And prayed to the heavens to stop all this torture
These souls that are tainted by all that is basic
And baseless the reasons that you have to love them
In time you will walk on the shadow of evil
Depression will set on the edge of your iris
Concession is made by the weak willed and spineless
They bury their heads and submit to enslavement
Progression of time is fulfiment of remorse
And so far the holy will bring us to reason
Heresay they shout at the top of their voices
Illusions so blinded they fail to account it
In need they might be but their pride is their reaper
And Deeper we'll go down this tunnel of wonder
But Sally your choice is the choices of others
And fight you they might, yet the end is so clear

By Athi Godlo