Mirror, Mirror

Mirror, Mirror

Lie to me.

Show me the person, I want to be.

Change my style

the way I walk.

Custom fit me for me, start with my talk.

Dilate my pupils to give me a wider vision of the world.

Take my heart and replace it with a pearl

I'd like it well rounded

Like one of the lone planets

Put it on an axis, make it twirl.

I need new lungs

To get new breath

To breathe life into my broken loves and their guests

Change me and put some calmness in my voice.

Make it lovely

Make it strong

So I have a choice

Fatten my tongue to strongly pronounce my words

I want to speak action packed nouns & adjectives, so they'll feel like verbs

Take away my chest and replace it with a pearl protecting vest

To protect the pearl that sits beneath my breast

Please put a mirror in my mind so I constantly face reality.

Remove my fingers and put on pens

So I can write in the sky

I'll never have to say good-bye again

Just I'll see you soon

Just look toward the moon

So far I've asked for walk, talk, style, heart of pearl and breath.

Then a new tongue, voice, fingers, and pearl protecting vest. 

Mirror, mirror

Don’t change anything else

You can leave the rest.

I'm not upset, depressed or insecure

Just would like a few augmentations to give me more

See, of all my parts and extremities the one I love the most?

My brain it gives me power, security and intellectual growth

Mirrors please lie to me show me what I need to be

Help me prevent a judgmental hell and all of what people doubt about me.

-Hrsh Reyalitee

-Mirror, Mirror is featured in To: My Future

Milk & Honey (Performance Piece)

Move your body - body
No derogatory
Let - let - let …your hips and tell your native story

Good thing your hips don’t bore me
they tell your Island glory
and leave the haters gory…

Blood and guts are left all over the pavement, that’s if u choose the wrong chess move and refute the truth in my next statements.

We are the sweet African and the sweet Caribbean correct?

YES

So due to the fact, we move with grace and have golden and bronze strands in our DNA, and that is why we…walk this way

We are the offspring’s of our Mother’s streams of Milk and Honey correct?

YES

SO due to the fact we dance and prance like Bohemian Egyptian Gods and goddesses composing songs of Love and happiness, threatening the masses with our loud presence and seductive lingo.

So…

Move your body - body
No derogatory

Let - let - let …your hips and tell your native story

Good thing your hips don’t bore me
they tell of cultured glory
and leave the haters all gory…

Men are courageous and strong in Mother’s foundation

Our pride can never be disguised; it is what keeps the fire in our eyes and the flags waving

The women run races with Grace, and live life ageless

I’d spit some of the famous figures, but too many, so for now they’ll remain nameless.

Just look around and see them in these beautiful faces…

Think about them when you hear the beat that originated in our feet and is embraced by our hearts.

We break out books of recipes and steal tummies like an unborn baby

Ox tails do me
Bring it to me under my banana tree

Mash it up
Yes, and thank you …I’d like some fried plantains or matoke as they say in East Africa

Either way just feed me

And give me a Rhythmic groove that will soothe me

So I can see…you…

Move your body - body
No derogatory
Let - let - let …your hips and tell your native story

Good thing your hips don’t bore me

I swear your love supports me

And make the thieves hit the floor for me

As I beat the steel drum and play the Kalimba,

Mother Earth moves as the bells ring, while we lift every voice and sing to Streams that brought forth the GREATNESS that is US.

No, I’m not conceited baby; I think this DUE to the FACT that the TRUTH is a MUST

We a classic like Mary and Meth

We groove to theories by Sweet Mickey
Patrice Roberts grooves me

Bob Marley keeps me humble as can be and Jah cure…I swear he sees God in me

I talk to Mary too

I smoke an ounce and talk to my Sweetheart real rude like that Buju

But I try to keep away from Wrey and his Nephew
but I do give respect where it is due and to SWEET Africa, and SWEET CARIBBEAN…I owe it to all

…to you

-Hrsh Reyalitee

-Milk & Honey is featured in To: My Future

Cooling Water

Blessings are pouring down on me.

Umbrella?

No thank you please.

Blessings are rushing to my feet like ocean waves.

Nah I want to keep my socks and sneakers on.

When I take them off and dry my feet, I want to stick them back in my cold sneaks and feel the chills of God’s abundance in my life bump up on my legs, arms, and make my choppers chatter.

I want to hang my socks out on the line so the breeze can stiffen them.

Then I want to put on a new pair so that everything that I put on can experience the feel…

Of God.

Blessings engulf me like a 6 foot pool to my 5’4 frame as if I jumped in the deep in not realizing how deep it truly was. It’s kind of like God.

I let him into my life knowing that he was good, but realized How Excellent is thy Name

I use God’s love like Cooling Water to wet my face to wash away the shame, and cast away the blame.

I’ve been baptized for the countless time, and now I wet my soul with words and drown my sorrows in stanzas.

Dedicated to my Father

Deacon Gaston Preddy
1947-2005

(Now Playing: Cooling Water – The Williams Brothers)

-Hrsh Reyalitee

-Cooling Water is featured in To: My Future

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