For Ijahman Levi[/b]



Are we a warrior

Draws me closer

To God’s image

In the mirror

Are we a warrior?

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Let not your arrow[/i]

You sang

from your bow[/i]

Do not let it go….

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Are we a warrior?[/i]



When I wasa child

I saw flashes of the soul’s utopia

You painted

Jahoveh like

Ona confused spirit

Are we a warrior?



I had forgotten you

Ijahman

In the rush of girls, campuses,

marriage, birth, tears....

Then one day

A surly workman

Dropped a tape at lunchtime

And avoided my eye...

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Are We a Warrior?[/i]



I am your warrior



Your blind-faith believer



So start another war

Dread Prophet



Gladly this soldier

Old now, feint now

Yet he presses onward still

Marking blood with every step

Fighting to reach that place

The quiet heart of this amusing turn

You sang so quietly about.