Monday, April 20, 2009

If you could do whatever you wanted to right now, what would you do?


If i could be doing anything right now, I would be listening to Jill Scott and writing poetry. One of my favorite poems form her is Honey Molasses. To me, Jill Scott is ineluctable because her rhymes and rhythms are so addicting but at the same time tranquilizing.


"Honey Molasses"


Honey molasses, ebony majesty

Chocolate brown shuga, sweet epiphany

I waited for your call but you choose not to call me

I wonder what happened

Were you inside a safe space and too

I wondered

Were you thinking about me and if you were

Why was I feeling so lonely

By the phone, alone to the bone

Although the night before you were in my home my body my dome

In a circle of passion we Paris Italy Japan Africa Rome

We made music, we trombone

It was magic the way it happened

Pure electricity

I felt so excited and afraid at the same time

I don 't know whether to sing or to rhyme

Call me

Honey molasses, ebony majesty

Chocolate brown shuga, sweet epiphany

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