CARLY Z | SONGWRITER | MUSICIAN

Absolution

1/4/2019

 
If you need to find the music again
Pole out to the Okavango Delta
Find Raps
Navigating the veins of Earth
Like he knows something about the heart

Cover your feet in thorns
And dirt
And kill
And then wash them in a basin
Ripped from the bleeding, reaching fingers of the Zambezi

Take life give life

Let Setswana drip
From the sharp edges of your crown
Nail your feet to the river
Tie your hands with reeds
So you can no longer look for what wants
To come upon you by surprise


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After a time

The Unknown Singers of the Okavango Delta
The aural apparitions of the almost dead
Come like water
Or blood
Or both

Take music give life

It is finished.
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