6:40 sun rise prayer

The lord may be a shepherd
(There are lords and shepherds)
but I am not sheep 
I am not asleep in the sun
I am not one unknowing of
the light and the night
I am not afraid of fear
I am not lost
whatever the wilderness
chaos does not cost me
to veer from journey
to stare from vision
to steer from purpose
I find truth in all things
truth finds me through love
truth soaks the soul
encases the heart
grows the spirit
with love
I know the maker and master
of my footprints
I know the marker of my way
in my silence I hear my voice say
stay in peace
stay in motion
even in the mists and midst of commotion
where there be a shepherd
I am not sheep

Blisca O'Cof
20150507

Full

You

had your

silver spoon

I

had my

flared finger

everyone

would scorn and say

it was the work of the devil…

not the spoon

mind you

but

my God-given finger

Blisca O’Cof

Note to Kelly: A Present Bright Light to The Future

…In the main though, I am impressed that our country is on the precipice of dismissing yet another generation of its young people. And, burying yet another generation of capacity, capability, ideas, ideologies, creativity, progress, vigor, and intelligence. 

I am counting on you to ensure that does not happen.

I truly believe that it is the responsibility of today’s generation to seize their country and its opportunities, to stand tall above the giants of the past, to boldly leap on their shoulders (or on their heads), and walk and talk fearlessly in a land that is actually now more the young’s future than it is that of the giants that understandably purport to run things; and purport to be engrossed in designing and building a future.

When the future is obviously a place where only you can inhabit, you are incredibly foolish to let those from the past absolutely control your present.

You should, though, be appreciative that those from the past may vehemently seek to control the present, and ostensibly the future. One reason is that the present is actually their future. They have dreamt it, built it; and now it is here. 

Even if it is not exactly what they had foreseen, their future is here in your present. 

But what is detrimental in this conundrum, and what is often overlooked, is that you need to have this present so that you can have your future. Sadly, if you have no place, or too little space in your present, your future will be severely jeopardized. There is no compromise for you here. If you do not find the ways to make significant contributions to your present, your future will be out of your hands. In fact, you may find yourself, in the future, pretty much where some of our present leaders fall: trying to use the present to build a future that is not theirs to build. They are embroiled in that futile attempt simply because they had previously failed to build their own future; they largely succumbed to the strangle in the struggle that sang them to sleep with a series of serial songs: 

• Sit Down and Shut Up, 
• Wait Weight on Your Turn,
• Sit Small Y'all,
• You Mus'-'e Smell Ya-self,
• Hang In There and Learn The Ropes (aka, We Pulling The Rope Tighter Round Your Neck),
• You Soon Get Your Chance (to the little or nothing we forget and leave behind to your hapless hopeless behind),
• Who You Think You Is?,
•  Let's Take You Under Our Wings (for some good smothering),

Never listen to those songs. They contain the words and souls of boneless none-sense draped in a flag of propaganda, promises, and pointless pain.

I have been deliberately ponderous with this deliberation. Hopefully, its depth engages you to dig and unbury the bodies of knowledge that always lay await among the rush of words.

I implore you to remain steadfast to the great human and the present leader that you are. 

I implore you to ignore the sapping lullabies from the mist that rain from the booming tongues of the great giant singers in our midst. 

I implore you to explore your destiny through your own vision. 

I implore you to begin to become, now.

All The Best 

Blisca O'Cof

2014-11-15

DOWN AND UP

young

people

mus’-‘e

not people who

could think in

who could talk in

who could walk in

the land

with head in high sky…

…that mus’-‘e why

the man them what mus’-‘e more man

than man

say

sit down and shut up

young people

mus’-‘e

a part of people who

just not smart enough people

to start a long sentence

to throw a bad ask question

what could land tough

in the hand

of the man them what mus’-‘e more man

than man

the one them who could stand

on bold bald crotches and say

sit down and shut up

young people

mus’-‘e

not people

who could be stink and

make newspaper ink

like the man them what mus’-‘e more man than man

the one them that does frown even when they

face down and they grace upside down

and they drop back pace renown

the one them that does sound

like the town is all about them...

...but young people is the problem

the one them that does drown dreams

the one them that does clown and stroke

while

young people

have to crawl up slippery slope

have to bawl at jokes

have to bolt they own eye ball

have to play dumb and stay broke

and

sit down

and

shut up

  

Blisca O’Cof

2014-10-01