So my friend has these amazing dreadlocks that breathes personality and vibrance..Just beautiful! He informed me that twice before he had took the razor to the tresses..shaved all those locks off.. without hesitation.. just like that!! to which my question was, 'Would you do it again?'...The dreads seem to be ingrained into who he is as a person that it was really hard for me to envision him without it..His answer brought fresh revelation ..He said he never wants anything to control, or overtake who he is as a person..I dig that...
He let me post the thoughts that reverbrated through the corners of his mind right after he shaved off his beautiful locks..
---I Am Me---
In jest I paused upon a plain
and stretched the tresses to garner gain;
I based the worth of what I’d purchased
upon furrowed rows of twisted purpose
I pulled upon those twisted tresses
and slowly grew a forest;
Labored deep in pondered silence,
quietly cultivating a dark lined chorus
Till one day unfurled I tread the streets,
born again, a man with purpose
Bearing the years of freedom and oppression
Black man mane like a lion, in a world created all my own
Part of a brotherhood, part of a clan
Part of a movement that holds God’s own hand
Forty days and nights were allotted to me
Six days to admire the handiwork and on the seventh
I worked feeling no sensation feeling no apprehension
Gazes following the natural progression flowing down my back
Black rivulets symbol of enlightenment of truth
of freedom of love of pain of joy of intrepidity
sound whirling round my ears and covering my eyes
Swaying in the wind and feeling paradise,
chanting down Babylon
Never but always surprised gazed upon with wonder
A definition of the sable way immortalized
when verdant growth was blazed
And consciousness altered,
the struggle became the way and the way became life
You is no longer you, you belong to that Life
that sable way immortalized
When verdant growth was blazed
Then one day the you emerges
Crown a calabash in the sun
Sensations flitting across skin
eyes clear ears unaffected by useless din
Now I tread unseen and now I carry strength
I carry the staff I part the waters in a silence
that deafens those around me
now I see me and understand
Now I tread with I AM
And so
Reveling in the freedom afforded
And
realizing with a start of surprise
That
I am still and now more so than ever
part of the Movement
the Brotherhood
that holds God’s own hand
He let me post the thoughts that reverbrated through the corners of his mind right after he shaved off his beautiful locks..
---I Am Me---
In jest I paused upon a plain
and stretched the tresses to garner gain;
I based the worth of what I’d purchased
upon furrowed rows of twisted purpose
I pulled upon those twisted tresses
and slowly grew a forest;
Labored deep in pondered silence,
quietly cultivating a dark lined chorus
Till one day unfurled I tread the streets,
born again, a man with purpose
Bearing the years of freedom and oppression
Black man mane like a lion, in a world created all my own
Part of a brotherhood, part of a clan
Part of a movement that holds God’s own hand
Forty days and nights were allotted to me
Six days to admire the handiwork and on the seventh
I worked feeling no sensation feeling no apprehension
Gazes following the natural progression flowing down my back
Black rivulets symbol of enlightenment of truth
of freedom of love of pain of joy of intrepidity
sound whirling round my ears and covering my eyes
Swaying in the wind and feeling paradise,
chanting down Babylon
Never but always surprised gazed upon with wonder
A definition of the sable way immortalized
when verdant growth was blazed
And consciousness altered,
the struggle became the way and the way became life
You is no longer you, you belong to that Life
that sable way immortalized
When verdant growth was blazed
Then one day the you emerges
Crown a calabash in the sun
Sensations flitting across skin
eyes clear ears unaffected by useless din
Now I tread unseen and now I carry strength
I carry the staff I part the waters in a silence
that deafens those around me
now I see me and understand
Now I tread with I AM
And so
Reveling in the freedom afforded
And
realizing with a start of surprise
That
I am still and now more so than ever
part of the Movement
the Brotherhood
that holds God’s own hand
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