I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
Sunrise and Sunset
Through every minute and
Every second
Every hour
Time transcending
Spirits ascending
Passing faces Familiar faces
Walking down paths that I remember Hearing same old stories told
SHIVA BUDDHA OSHUN SHANGO NYAME OGUN
YEMANJA I come forth by Day and by Night
Spirits on top of spirits on top of spirits
Riding bareback between water and rock
Cowry toes
Tree branch fingers
ME-Octopus
Whirling and spinning about
Hopping and jumping
Squating and laughing
Right foot before the left
Like a thousand ants moving all about YOU
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
Creeping through your pineal gland
Along cortex groves
Stimulating testes and ovaries
Waiting to dance on the climax
Beckoning your tongue to be loosed
Come and reunite with me Through history and prayer
Come bow down at the shrine
Taste clear blood
Drink of all
Understand the flow of all that exist outside of your body
You are no more You are no more
YOU are it
YOU are all
COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
ALL OF YOU LOST SPIRITS COME FORTH BY DAY AND COME FORTH BY NIGHT
AWAKE
Awake to the rustling of your wings
Let them carry you to place of remembrance
Let them take you beyond the mirror
Step into darkness; damp hot sweaty darkness
Every drop has color
You create what you wish and you are all that you create
Black butterflies fluttering as eyelashes
Turtles as feet
A sword as a back
An elephants trunk for a belly
Weeping willows for arms
A lotus as a face
Eyes of fire and
Lips of purple dust
With every twirl and whirl of your hips;
a rush of flower petals surround you
COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
AWAKE YOU AWAKE YOU AWAKE YOU
Take hold of the energy that directs you
Take the hand of a baobob tree
Pass through oceans into black holes
Through meditation rituals
Dig beneath the earth and hear the ancient stories
Told from the mouths of beetles
LISTEN- walls do talk
LISTEN trees do hear
LISTEN birds know who you are
I evoke spirits within spirits
I evoke water within water
Air within air
I call to Mama, Baba, Creator,
All that will hear me
I come bringing gifts:
Dresses made from eagle feathers
Shoes of gold
Glass volcanoes
Teeth of pearl and A baboons drum
I come forth by day and by night
Like a pitch black cloud that sweeps across every
Planet at 18 hours in a second
Sending wisps of coconut scented milk drops that
fall and dazzle on top of every spine; like gold diamonds
Volcano power erupts from my palm
Apricot nectar drips from my lips
With woven breast made like a birds nest housing elephant babies-
I nurse them with the juice of black cherries
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
With ancestral skulls buried underneath my armpits and
aborted babies kept snug in my navel
with snakeskin wrapped snugly around my thigh and beaver
fur tied around my ankle
a stolen noose from a southern tree drapes my shoulders with Black neck still attached
Homeless people ride my back and
Single mothers suckle gold coins from my toes
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
With hidden secrets in my fingernails and the answers to all
questions imaginable in my eyebrows
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
With all things seen and unseen
Myths and history
Truth and disease
Antidote and voodoo
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
Evoking spirits within spirits
Evoking water within water
Air within air
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND BY NIGHT
NIGHT IS DAY DAY IS NIGHT
AND
MY
EYES
ARE
ALWAYS
OPEN
Mantra 