Divine Ear Lyrics

With knees bent

Hands together and eyes closed

We are like falling trees in an abandoned wood

A song unheard

A harrowing howl hoping to reach some Divine Ear

And so we pray

Dear ear that listens when we pray

I kneel before you now a drying desperate mouth

Spewing out a procession of dying words

Desperate to be heard

To be herded towards some sacred drum at the end of your ear-canal

Hear my plea great carrier of our cries

There where you are at the edge of an ominous sky

Allow me sweet collapse

Allow the hungry night devour me

And spit me out on the other side of the map

Let me lie on your lap

Let me die while I still have some semblance of my dignity intact

While the bridge between myself and my sanity still stands erect

Before my thinning skin detaches itself from my crumbling flesh

Before my bones bemoan the marrow of this treacherous path

Let me lie while my truth rings in tune with my relentless passions

While my immune system is attuned to fending off the demons hell-bent on my heart's thrashing

Before my rickety jaw is unhinged by the weight of this haunting silence

Before my misery soars to heights beyond my slippery reach

Before my dreams transform into a raging mob intent on a quiet violence

Let me slip into the clutches of a bottomless sleep

My gentle spirit yearns for whatever good the night still holds in secret

Grant me access dear divine countess

Mother of life

Introduce me to my Father

The reaper of grim souls from the branches of life's toppling tree

Allow me go before the cock crows

Before my alarm lifts its arms

And yanks at the heavy hands of time

Let me lose from the noose that is my youth

Before treacherous time catches up with me

Save me from the transmutation of treasure into tragedy

Before everything I am dies and is replaced by a breathing eulogy

A fading black and white film of me repeating itself incessantly

I have not even a home except for the one that houses my tortured soul

Grant me leave dear warden of wanting spirits

So I may wander forth into the place of my belong

Allow me escape so I may overtake the tragedy that trails before me

Sign me out before every sign of life leaves my body dangling on the thread of hollow pride

Let me leave lest I lead myself to the last reprieve

Lest I rest on the chest of my gradual plight

Fashion my spirit with an unfailing flight

Let me lie while my truth survives my lies

While I can still walk the blurred line between purpose and parody

Allow me to see myself out

To seal myself off and ship away into the deep dark waters

That house all of time's fallen authors.

Dust of my destiny, dungeon of my breath

I call upon thee to come for me

Yours sincerely

Me

And thus the amen of an ailing man

And then the response

From the Mouth of the only Ear that heard

My own

Dear self, the time has come for you to learn

That it is not you that wants to die

It is who you were

For you are now pregnant with new purpose

Out with the old it must be for the new (in you) to breathe

For your bulging womb to release

The body cannot persist as a tomb to long dead dreams

Constantly trying to die

Constantly trying to be born

Constantly trying to die only to be born

Anew

Due now is an adieu to the old you

Yours sincerely

You

Siyathandaza Baba

Singabantwana bakho

Rea rapela RaRa

Ke rona bana bago

Mdali wezulu nomhlaba

Siyashweleza Simakade

Kunzim' emhlabeni

Ka lebitso la Ntate

Le la Morwa

Le la Moya

O halalelang

[Tongues]