Holy Culture
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- Category: Poetry
- Published on Saturday, 10 September 2011 05:29
- Written by Aurelius Raines II
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Holy Culture
the revolution comes
and the saints march streets
in holy dashikis
and the Word of God
naps into their brains
and their prophecy’s
are pumped fists in the air
holding up the sky
with a fifth day prayer
and the Gospel becomes
the new mother land
and our lives the new culture
the holy culture
virtue becomes
skin hue
daughter sits between
mother’s knees
who corn rows
scripture in her head
and heart
lets spark
the holy culture
old men sit in barber shops
and tell stories of survival
in Babylon days
and devise ways
of bringing men
into the movement
it’s about improvement
the holy culture
GD’s become
God’s Disciples
and bang Zion
like gang signs
Emcee’s cry holy
on blocks
Cry Holy
for the broken bodies
of empty warriors
and their women
crying saltless tears
and bellies big with uncertainty
learn to be
The holy culture
and be the right Christian
instead of the Christian right
and nazerite of the night
axe choppin’ false pulpits
use the wood to light fires
inspire
a Holy culture
holy spirit in like melanin
shorties rehearse
memory verse
like basketball stats
and cats recite
psalms and such
while playin’ double-dutch
and bums become
prophets in the wilderness
yellin’
“behold the lamb God”
and sin be odd
in the Holy Culture
summer brings a people
who gotta be
sportin’ the latest styles in modesty
and the velocity of animosity
gives way to love
and it’s possibility
The Holy Culture
sings songs of repentance
and conviction to praise
and it’s holy lives raised
sayin’
yes, yes y’all, to the WORD y’all
Million Man
Malcolm X’ing out sin
and Martin Luther Marching
on Babylon
to reclaim our sons
and it ain’t no more falls
in the holy culture
warriors walk tall in the holy culture
we all the Holy Culture