But there's goin to be a revolution

Title refers to the verse that goes "But there's goin to be a revolution / the yout talk about it all day long / it is inhaled in every spliff / it detonates in every system" from "Springblade" by Kamau Brathwaite.

 

suck it in, bring it deep and sturdy

this hand-stinging, eye-clinging smell

 

of children in the rough, sleeping on diamonds

buried

 

aye, e’ery rebels son, e’ery fated daughter

rises toward the coming sun

 

lights the green, green lives afire

suck it in, spicy winter air

 

soil red like the skin of those you kill

peace pipes and poverty

 

no more Christmas cards and cheap smokes

rally on cobbled streets

 

this is revolution

is voice volition

 

hyperion slips, glowing, through eyelash bars

speculates and liberates on a wind at sunrise

Author's Note

I flicker between hating and liking this, is it understandable?

Reviews

[Andromeda]

yeah, it's understandable. im the same way w/ a lot of mine.
hmmm...it's really pretty, but i don't quite know what it means. it's boggling my brain, but i like it.