Music: FATIMA WASHINGTON/Kamasi Tii Washington/ Kamasi music
The Prophet chosen and beloved.
The gates of his heart flung open.
And his joy few far
Over the sea
With eyes closed he prayed
In the silence of his soul
How shall I go in peace
Without sorrow.
Who can part from his pain
And his aloneness without regret
Fragments of spirit scattered in these streets
A burden and an ache
It is not a garment I cast off this day
But a skin I tear with my own hands
Nor is it a thought I leave behind me
But a heart made sweet with thirst
For to stay through the hours
Burn in the night
Is to freeze and crystallize
And be bound in a mould
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips
That gave it wings
Alone must it seek the ether
And alone shall the eagle fly
Sons of my ancient mother
You riders of the tides
How often have you sailed in my dreams
And now you come in my
Awakening which is my deeper dream
I am ready to go sails to the wind
Oh Prophet chosen and beloved
A dawn into his own day
Oh Prophet chosen and beloved
This is what he say
Shall the day of parting
Be the day of gathering
And shall it be said that my eve
Wasn't truth, my dawn
The elders of the city stood forth and said
Go not yet away from us
A noontide have you been in our twilight
Your youth has given us dreams to dream
No stranger are you among us
But our beloved son
Suffer not yet our eyes
To hunger for your face
Let not the waves of the sea
Separate us now
Nor the years you have spent in our midst
Become a memory
You have walked among us a spirit
Your shadow a light upon our face
Much have we loved you
But speechless was our love
Yet now it cries aloud unto you
And revealed before you
And ever has it been that Love knows
not its own depth
Until the hour
Of separation
Oh Prophet of god chosen and beloved
In quest of the uttermost high
Oh Prophet of god chosen and beloved
In quest of the uttermost high
Now your ship has come
And you must need to go
Deep is your longing,
for the place of your great desires
And Our love will not bind you
Nor our needs hold you
Yet we ask before you leave us
That you speak into us your truth
And we will give it unto our children
It shall not perish
In your aloneness, you have watched with our days
And in your wakefulness, you have listened
To the weeping and laughter of our sleep
Oh Prophet of god chosen and beloved
Speak to us your truth
Oh Prophet of god chosen and beloved
This we ask of you