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"That Which Is Good Is Never Finished"
Bill Quigley
16 Dec 2008
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"THAT WHICH IS GOOD IS NEVER FINISHED"
-- Proverb of the Sukuma people of Tanzania
(a wedding poem for Christopher and Varanda)

 

Click the flash player below to hear this original work performed by the Seven Foot Poet

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It is wonderfulwhen you love yourself enoughto allow yourselfto be -- to have -- to give -- to takea wish -- a hope -- a spouse -- a soulmate.

The distance between yesterday tomorrow and today

can be measured in magic

when you levitate

your frame of reference

drift into a different perspective

an anciently new

ancestral reality

where

1 + 1 = 1

and

1 + 1 + 1 = 1 . . . infinitely.

That which is glorious

cannot be diminished.

That which is good

is never finished.

Your union pre-dates a beginning

and post-dates an end.

Your ancestors bring

tenfold blessings

ivory bracelets and leopard skins.

Modern society’s feeble understanding of dimensions

acquiesces like pawns before a king and queen

when your love is mentioned:

“Bow down time!”

“Bow down space!”

“Bow down distance!”

Earth and sky celebrate

this marriage

this day

Know this

Know it like you know your heart is beating this very instant.



By Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)

Peace (when appropriate) War (when necessary)

Copyright 2008.

Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented in www.blackagendareport.com and www.voxunion.com are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational Institute (www.ayaed.com) in Atlanta, Georgia and can be reached at sevenfootpoet@gmail.com.



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