NIGHT REFRAIN
For Bilal Sunni Ali
By Malkia M’Buzi Moore
When blue rains red they’ll
hear your sax scream
the resistance song.
The song they would
yank from your throat
cut from your fingers
murder in the smile
of dreadlocked sons &
round eyed daughters of warm laughter.
They would sever the song from your spine.
Rip the chords from each inch of bone.
Peal away scales from bars with no anesthesia.
They fear the equilibrium song
wife as partner
co-builder of shelter to house dreams
this warrior woman of night sounds.
They would have this gone from you.
No welcome chorus only departure wails.
They would have the C sharp scream
through your children’s dreams.
B flat steel clank across Fulani’s face.
They would take your song
replace it with a funeral dirge.
Remove the spirit notes.
Leave a dead thing walking
call it you.
But you are a strong
progression of new notes.
Spirit Song,
you live
where clouds meet earth & water sleeps.
Ancient/future truths
dance through your horn
as you unleash
the resistance song
raining
blue
red
upon the earth.
Bilal Sunni-Ali: Remembering a Revolutionary’s Legacy of Love, Community, and Family - MANA
Notes: On October 27, 1981, Fulani Sunni Ali was seized in a pre-dawn raid and military attack at the home of Jerry Gaines in Byrdtown, Miss. An FBI terrorist gang of over 200 surrounded the town and country house with four tanks and two helicopters, then illegally took her, Jerry Gaines, Alajo Adegbalola and twelve small children in handcuffs to jail.
Extracted from: Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Communication Dissertations Department of Communication Spring 5-10-2013 I am a Revolutionary Black Female Nationalist: A Womanist Analysis of Fulani Sunni Ali's Role as a New African Citizen and Minister of In-formation in the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa Rondee Gaines
For Bilal Sunni Ali
By Malkia M’Buzi Moore
When blue rains red they’ll
hear your sax scream
the resistance song.
The song they would
yank from your throat
cut from your fingers
murder in the smile
of dreadlocked sons &
round eyed daughters of warm laughter.
They would sever the song from your spine.
Rip the chords from each inch of bone.
Peal away scales from bars with no anesthesia.
They fear the equilibrium song
wife as partner
co-builder of shelter to house dreams
this warrior woman of night sounds.
They would have this gone from you.
No welcome chorus only departure wails.
They would have the C sharp scream
through your children’s dreams.
B flat steel clank across Fulani’s face.
They would take your song
replace it with a funeral dirge.
Remove the spirit notes.
Leave a dead thing walking
call it you.
But you are a strong
progression of new notes.
Spirit Song,
you live
where clouds meet earth & water sleeps.
Ancient/future truths
dance through your horn
as you unleash
the resistance song
raining
blue
red
upon the earth.
Bilal Sunni-Ali: Remembering a Revolutionary’s Legacy of Love, Community, and Family - MANA
Notes: On October 27, 1981, Fulani Sunni Ali was seized in a pre-dawn raid and military attack at the home of Jerry Gaines in Byrdtown, Miss. An FBI terrorist gang of over 200 surrounded the town and country house with four tanks and two helicopters, then illegally took her, Jerry Gaines, Alajo Adegbalola and twelve small children in handcuffs to jail.
Extracted from: Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Communication Dissertations Department of Communication Spring 5-10-2013 I am a Revolutionary Black Female Nationalist: A Womanist Analysis of Fulani Sunni Ali's Role as a New African Citizen and Minister of In-formation in the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa Rondee Gaines
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