Where Is The Power Performance

Black Cultural Center's Cultural Arts Festival 2010

Purdue University

The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized Performance

The Haraka Writers rewrite Gill Scott Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

for the Black Cultural Center's 2010 Cultural Arts Festival at Purdue University.

Control+F My Life

Originally written June 9, 2011

I was searching for you.

I stopped at every corner

Searched through every line for you,

and you where no where to be found.

I had even checked my own spine

to see if I had the back bone;

to truly stomach the fact that I had lost you.

I sent my self on a spiral bound of false hope.

Hoping that I will glance at you again.

But all I find are blank white stares

lined with the coldness of icy blue hearts

I’m not sure when I lost you,

If I left you, or just truly just forgot you

I’d rather tell everyone you ran away from me

then I would have an excuse for your absence

How could I be that irresponsible

to crumble you up and throw you away

into a wastebasket of “not good enoughs”

and “I don’t feel like its”,

to hold you back and not letting

you get a chance to show others what you can do.

How selfish.

Not even ready to admit to myself

that I am giving up on you

or at least making it seem as such.

So I search for you in my denial.

Although I know how this search will end

I still continue to examine over the lines

like eye witness testimony that will finally set me free

from this 8 by 11 cell that jails me everyday.

That I bury my self in relentlessly

Maybe

telling myself that I’ve lost you

Will stop others from realizing I’m loosing me

Hopefully, one day,

when I do finally find you.

You will be the perfect piece

Perforated and torn away from me

Only For One Day

Only For One Day

2/14/2011

I want you to whisper sweet nothings to me until my ears get cavities.

I want the smell of roses to corrode my nose with the sweetness of your love

I want you to be crazy and naive and love me for one day

Feed my stomach with the chocolates of foolish lovers lyrics

And play soft music so we can sway to the sounds of digital bliss

Take me somewhere I’ve been to before, but this time make it special.

Let us show each other the love that we should have for each other for today.

Let us stare into each others eyes stargazing at this magical miracle that we have discovered.

Shower me with gifts that tomorrow I may bathe in this memory forever

I want you to be crazy and love me for only one day

I want to clasp your hand and align the lines in our palms

So that maybe we will sync to one another

Then we can download our true feelings through out pockets pc’s

And maybe when we let go we will still have a PAL connection

I dare you to be crazy and love me for one day

Kiss me with the intense of soft lips intended for this occasion

Show me that this relation between you and I

Isn’t as temporary as I know it is

Make my thoughts float so my mind

May swim in this sweet moment

only for a moment on this day

Prepare me for the normalcy of tomorrows sorrows

And yesterdays cries, tell me everything I want to hear

Even though they might be lies. Be obliged

to entertainment with this thought of hypothetically soul ties

I want you to be strange

I want you to be naive

I dare you to be crazy

And love me for one day