*The first time I saw you, I fell in love.*
This past weekend at Community Rising, I shared a new, 10 minute spoken word piece called “Community Rising” – I’ve had many requests to post the recording and the lyrics. Here it is…
Also, stay tuned for a hilarious introduction of Dale, my new southern persona.
Lyrics:
I’ve never felt at home
Growing up, I’ve always felt alone
This morning, I woke up, and felt at home
And realized, it’s months, since I’ve ever felt alone
You.
You.
The first time I saw you
I fell in love
From that first night I got you
What I felt was God
That love inside of me grew
I left on a nomadic journey two years ago
Little did I know it would guide me to you
All the world’s limitations, you kindly refuse
As we build with such patience, and quietly move
Towards new a generation, boldly shining your truth
When I first came to community
I discovered it’s more than just the you and me
It’s more than just what you can see
It’s what ties us all in unity
This web of life runs through us see
Connects us all so fluidly
As we geometrically align
Like hexagons in hives
Feel the blessings from the sky
And we gently realize
It’s our destiny to thrive
Not just mentally survive
Yes, It’s our destiny to thrive
Connect those separately confined
In the shelter of their minds
Bring the lessons of divine
Through our breath as revive
The truth we’ve kept on the inside
Now we’re here, and we’re meant to redefine
All the selfish paradigms
As we connect to the divine
We become separate from the lies
Fully live out the potential of our lives
The fact that we’re here together is telling of the times
Opening, accepting all the signs
That in this moment we can hone in to how potent
We can be so with intention we design
A real world heaven with our lives
We’ve lived in these illusions enough
The confusion is up
Releasing the illusion that being human is tough
As we seek the resolution above
Bring it down as we’re fusing as humans with God
And walk this path, committing to the evolution of love
Community
It’s the structure we choose
Realizing we got nothing to lose
Even more so we got nothing to prove
But we know we’ve got something, and that something is truth
And of that something we know nothing
Once we’re done with all our running
We stop saying “we’re not enough” that we use
As a fucking excuse
Cause once we find our purpose, we can serve this earth
Even if we’re running on fumes
Taking nothing personally, even if our love is refused
Consistently with wisdom we’re expanding our capacity to care
Step boldly to the world we know that audacity is there
We bring it into our passion and our prayer
Through which we actively declare
With power and light
To connect as the flower of life
Together, in this very hour we might
Build a tower of light
So tall that it showers the night
With our love, with our kindness, with our delight
Of living as
A community by the ocean, where we can shine and beam and
A place where people can be open, and we can divinely see them
With their truth fully spoken, and live by the five agreements
Coming with their hearts broken, and we can try to heal them
Give them a shoulder to cry and lean on
After the world told them: “Don’t cry”
We say, fuck that.
Cry
Cry
Cry
Cry tears of catharsis
Till there’s nothing left to part with
Till you’ve purged out all the darkness
And there’s light left where your heart is
You’re a poet you’re an artist
Find your flow that’s where your art is
Connect it all and you’re a heart-ist
And you’re glowing in the darkness
You’ll show them where the spark is
Become one with the light, drop the chip off your shoulder
Done with the fight, done living like soldiers
Evolving your life, living with the wisdom of yoda
Through your commitment to yoga
This wisdom we’re gifted
As we commit to this mission
And we live in this vision
Remove the limits, conditions
That limit our thinking
So we shift and transition
To a state of bliss and forgiveness
Release all the pieces
Previous beliefs
That deceived us, we lead us
To leave all the demons
To believe in our dreams and
Re-concieve like a Phoenix
A rebirth
A new earth
We re-surface
It hurts
But we’re certain
That our purpose
Is worth it
Willing to do the work
And the service
And if this vision ever gets hard to believe in
Just look around at the hearts that are here in
The Garden of Eden
More than just a party, we’re leading!
We’re creating bliss
We’re learning
How to live life in relationships
It’s here I’ve learned to face my shit
Such mirrors to my shadow truth
Where I’ve chosen fear over gratitude
Until I learned to clear my attitude
And learned to fully love you, even when I’m mad at you
Until the love grows to such magnitude
That I transcend all of my sadness too
Through your reflections I’ve learned to face where I’m broken
Through your connection, I’ve learned to embrace my emotions
Through all your lessons, I’ve learned a new pace in my motion
Slowing down to convey what I’ve spoken
And ensure it comes from a place of devotion
Hope, and
Vulnerability
And that conscious will in me
To support the possibility
Of us living in love so beautifully
Of touching the truth we seek
And expressing it all so musically
On the note of music, we
Have some of the most talented
Musicians on a mission
In our community
Singing for truth and unity
Even if you don’t consider yourself talented musically
This includes all of us, you and me
You have a voice
Speaking your truth is a choice
Every word makes a difference
In a world full of wisdom
And our words are deliverance
Of the world that we’ll live in
You can speak quietly
You can even speak silently
You can speak with your eyes you see
Or even, with your eyes asleep
Cause the light, that’s under your eyelids speaks
Let’s slow down and breathe
Really, sit with me, slow down and breathe
Turn to the person next to you, hug, hold on and squeeze
Put your full heart into it, hold on and squeeze
Feel, feel their heart of gold, and release
The beauty of connection
Heals the truth of imperfection
So I fall and fold on my knees
Pray, rise, and stand bold in my peace
To remind you, that the magic that we’re living
Is just a path to the beginning
Of the beginning of the path
Of a vision that we have
To evolve the world past the conditions that it’s had
Transcend the limits of the past
So I sit here as a man
Drop every limit that I can
I put this mission in your hands
We exist to make a stand
To heal the pain and the sorrow
Release the shame that we swallowed
To choose a game that’s not hollow
To do something that matters, today and tomorrow
This is just the beginning, step by step
Breath by breath
Always remember you are rising
In all ways forever you are rising
The demons inside of us demising
The equal and higher selves reviving
We’re a sequel to the highest of horizons
Releasing the lies that have denied us
From the divine we have inside us
Deepen our eyes as we decide this
Become beacons of light on the horizon
So always remember you are rising
In all ways forever you are rising
In all ways, together, we are rising
The first time I saw you
I fell in love
From that first night I got you
What I felt was God
And tonight, as I see you
I fall in Love
Through this air between us, I breathe you
I call it God
