un-lost tribes of dis-topia

to be inified... is not to be in a state of perpetual agreement...

for although we are one, we are not one...we are the many ones that exist in the complex, fractured

one-ness

of

us

tribe, in evolution, and revolution, can simultaneously bring forth connection and fragmentation…

and in my truth, tribe is far away from the illusion of utopian perfection…

especially a utopia which has been [re]defined by kinfolk and skin-folk who engage in their-storical

revision

to justify the exclusion of those of us who are deemed “aberration”

my tribes are many…

i belong to the un-lost tribes of all that we are and can be…

memory pieces conceived in ancestor wisdom and sacrifice...caressed with courageous imaginings and kissed with fire of rebellion

tribes birthed along complicated, messy bloodlines and written into existence through black-majik spells and love-rhymes

tribes gathered in worship through joy-full, careless all-night limes and strategically joined together on psychic battlegrounds during wartimes

tribes that in hard times are known to traverse painful fault-lines and ego land mines

in the ecstatic disorder

that is

us

my tribes are

village circles where i am made whole and most easily broken

architecture where if i am not careful

a careless whisper can be anxiety-shaped in my mind as a scream...or worse re-scaffolded in their mind as treacherous misdemeanour

my tribes are 

kitchen tables where my tears can flow into belly laughs and re-form themselves in spirit vapours

poured back as rum into soil and drummed back into life... skin-on-skin

my tribes are streets where even when we are fragmented and afraid we call ourselves into revolution...in service to our collective liberation...

my tribes are riddim and verse

dub-plate and bassline

righteous waistline and tile an’ wallpaper an’ bamboo lawn

my tribes are cosmos...pluriverses with moons and suns joined by portals...whole blackholes...and black holds...

my tribe…my tribes...word-drum-heart-beat-bone-flesh-us...all...us