Flashes of Insight

The Dream is Awakened

It is Nov 5, and we have an inspiring new president.
I FEEL SO WONDERFUL and I just keep tearing up. When I saw that park in Chicago so filled with love and light I remembered the last time I had viewed that space and it was during the Days of Rage from the Democratic Convention, so many years ago. That was a police riot where so many of us were maimed or killed. I wept for all the years that some of us have held this vision of freedom and justice. Images of being tear gassed and followed by the police flooded my thoughts..How many years we have worked to fulfill Martin’s Dream, how many years to honor the dead in Rosewood, the freedom riders Emmett Till Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman,SojournerTruth and Martin and Malcolm and Marley and Medgar and those that drowned during the Middle Passage and on and on. (read on…)

N’AWLINS ON MY MINDBlues/ 
Date: 9/13/2005 8:49:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time

N’AWLINS ON MY MIND
    Flash Silvermoon c Goddesstunes 2005
[organ driven mournful blues sound]
I
The dead are walkin down the streets of N’Awlins
And I feel their footsteps break night’s silent scream     [2x]
No honkey tonk piano rings out on old Bourbon Street
And the wind howls ghostly through the trees
II
Seems like someone just forgot ’bout the people of N’awlins
When the water comes up there’s no place to go[2x]
I feel the Spirits gatherin out on old Congo Square
And Mamselle Marie Laveau she’s a standin there
[organ solo to afro rhythm drum break]
   Blood mix with mud through the Bayou flood 2x      
  Children in the streets  with not enough to eat
    Gris gris gumboyaya Gris gris gumboyaya [3x]
   Sacred Jambalaya
[these words continue in background under rap]
Children starving in the streets not enough to eat
Not enough to drink  Livin in dirt and stink
No roof over their heads  too many needlessly dead
What could be in their heads to bring the aid so slow
People got no where to go how could they not know
What millions of us knew, but these monied few
just had too much to do ——–oh wade in the water
wade in the water children  wade in the water someone’s in trouble in the waters 2x
           Don’t leave them all alone ]
           Damballah take them home] 2x
  Dancin’ with the Snake,,,Until the levee breaks
Damballah Damballah Damballah Damballah Aweido
                   [3x]
Don’t leave them all alone
Damballah take them  home (read on…)

Keepin’ it real so do whatcha feel takin it to the streets would really be sweet for the sis and bros and mamas and kids an alien-nation of peaceseeking freaks who will stand and speak and never run when the rest of the sheeple are under the gun.

Now we can see em leap like rats from a sinking stinking ship of state and who can they even delegate to take the hit for the pompous ass who still thinks he owns the vote of the masses who can’t get off their collective asses to notice that our democracy is dead and gone
Dead as the children in the Desert storms that lay waste to both sides while claiming to heal
when all they really want is some oil to steal or sell to the highest bidder and nobody gonna be the winner.

STAND UP SHEEPLE ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE