Nandi

2019
Taz Song’Ony

beliefs jagged by broken pieces 
Cracked, Weathered with tears 
stabbing to the beat of colonizing 
Disillusionment normalizing  

Can I hold onto these beliefs evolving
I’m trying to strip this appetite.  
Discover a purpose to heal?  
Where has our resistance gone? 

Resistance. 
a new consensus of belief 

Ancestors 
See Me take form in the space between us  
Sing to Me when I need to cry  
Meet me when my appetite dies
And Merge with me from land into your eyes  
Reveal us, nandi.  

Write our land a beat 
Liberate our breeze and let rain sink 

Encapsulate our memories 
Rooting in our seeds 
Brewing our tea 

Listen to our lands drum 
Glide in our rivers 
And sing lullabies to our loves 
Speak to our lands soul 
Honor and confide in the glimmers of the sand 
Kusifu mababu

I’m coming home to believing 
Boiling, Seeping into a new creation 
Motherhood reborn, 
Resisting the appetite 
Wake up restored 
Making a kind of whole love
Smooth and horizoned