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AK Toney: “TRUE HUMAN DOGON”

By AK Toney on January 8, 2020 in Music, Poetry

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TRUE HUMAN DOGON

(for Ras G.)

 

Same colors different skin
Heart pumps humans in
Same colors different skin
Heart pumps humans end

Mother Ocean flow us our destination
Father Stars guide us beyond
Warriors lead to the fertility of purity
She is itutu as he is high in glow

Come from the ether
Call us to Celestial
The body is a point of light
And we float as liquid carries
The tribes of our Ancestors

“The Nummo divided his body among people
to feed them; that is why it is also said that
as the Universe had drunk of his body,
the Nummo made people drink. He gave all
his principles to human beings.”

Same colors different skin
Heart pumps humans in
Same colors different skin
Heart pumps humans end

Gave you extraterrestrial
Now you so-so celestial
‘Cuz it’s mystical magical
Cosmological universal
Biological lyrical
Never no whimsical
Phenomenal miracle
Gave you molecular structure
From the string of the sutra
Rhythm drum when we suit ya’
Word seed tree from the roota to fruita
Like an alien bling
Strange sort of sight for your seeing
It’s an alien being
Odd attractive but
You see yourself being
Yet you see yourself being
Yeah, you see yourself being
You know Sirius B
Sort of out there you see
Beyond any eye that can see
From the Dog Star I be
I’m a Dogon at sea
Constellation Heart Harmony
Interstellar Parallel Free

Same colors different skin
Heart pumps humans in
Same colors different skin
Heart pumps humans end

Griot to Cosmos
Griot to Cosmos
Come in, coming in from
African Space Station
Come in, coming in from
African Space Station
Come in…

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AK Toney

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A. K. Toney is a Griot, writer and educator. He currently is a Literacy Coordinator, Artist teacher and owner of Reading Is Poetry. He is currently working on his first book and album chronicling his life as a poet in the Leimert Park Village area in Los Angeles, CA.

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