Lost Tapes 2020

I want to welcome y'all to my lost tapes I wasn't planning to do this But sometimes life makes plans for you For everything we left For everyone who left us I'm thankful for my breath Even though it's hard to get up Memories ache Some days the pain doesn't let up I remember your face And it's enough to keep my head up Hope we're here to embrace Once the pandemic lets up I lost a friend, diabetic, he was so young He would of loved to see the people rising up, like All around the globe people marching for our Black lives In ways they haven't since the fight against apartheid Masked up just to go outside We face a virus and violence, we risk our lives If I die, I often wonder what I'll leave behind Will the precinct burn Will the sleeping learn Will the world that we tried to build finally emerge Like a phoenix in flight out of ashes and dirt It's more than these words Of love and of work Tryna take all the hurt And make something of worth For the young ones now who gonna grow up and search This is an offering from times uncertain Moments within a shift as the whole world's hurting It's a trauma that will visit you I'm certain How we make it through is how we love, how we listen How we stay connected even through all of the distance It's imperfect, and dusty as these tapes are My lost ones I never knew I'd make it this far