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Until I'm Not

from Legacy Materials by Sankofa

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I put myself inside a prison that yet to come
Now I can’t enjoy what I am doing, getting numb
Between sunken shoulders, colder and my head is slumped
Is it any wonder that I’m lashing out with venom tongue?
The dead are done and I’m still alive until I’m not
That’s how the children running in the village still are taught
I go to work and work is best as play, festive days
But I’m busy bleeding color ‘til I left it gray
My life experience won’t show up on that resume
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget what I have kept at bay
But then those boats start crashing at the lighthouse
And my response is all I want to do is lie down
Hide away until it disappears, but it returns
And here I am, amidst a list of all these wistful words
I wish for worth but I am busy going nowhere
A missing verse inner visions sitting so spare


What is there to speak about?
Is there anything I utter that can be profound?
Questions that I keep on asking, telling me surrender now
A walking radio, antenna down, treading ground
A set of clowns cascade from this mouth of mine
Nothing funny, watch them running in a drowning line
Found the sign but the screws had been replaced
With marble ruses and amusement, bruises in its face
Mistakes repeated doomed to play that song again
Greatest hits and the misses list the latest gone to friends
Scaling back plans I had until my hands are empty
Demanded plenty entranced with envy a cancer bending
The chants are deadly, I find myself succumbing quickly
Too tired to resist, they can come and get me
My lungs are heavy, there’s no crown on what remains of me
And right now you’re seeing just what I proclaim as free

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from Legacy Materials, released March 25, 2022

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