Opportunity’s Autumn Burial

Bill Quigley

08 Oct 2008

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Opportunity’s Autumn Burial

by Kemet Mawakana

Click the flash player below to hear this work performed by the Seven Foot Poet

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If leaves could fly

Would they fall prey to the wind

Accept their fate and simply give in?

If leaves could fly

Would they have already left

Or remain beholden to branches that promise freedom

The week after next?

If leaves could fly

Would they remember

Those before them that died in past Septembers?

If leaves could fly

Would the reminisce

On days of hanging onto hopes of false bliss?

So I leave you now with one thought left

If leaves don’t try to fly

The fall brings certain death.

By Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)

Peace (when appropriate) War (when necessary)

Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . InfinityCrucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented in www.blackagendareport.com and www.voxunion.com are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational Institute (www.ayaed.com) in Atlanta, Georgia and can be reached at sevenfootpoet@gmail.com.

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