Our Revolution Must Be Different... Warrior/Houngan we salute you Frail body Towering spirit it is a savagery/that you have known. Our Revolution must be different Limping wizard prophet of the tribe it is brutality/visited upon you Our Revolution must be different it is not it is not it is not enough'- to make a change to make blood to make slaughter Our Revolution must be different Our poets cannot be eaten Our shepherds cannot be stoned We rip out the logos of our beginnings We trample the heaven-heart of our growth Our Revolution must be different ......... Rise beyond scalpel and missile Reach up for quantum and love Our Revolution must be different reshaping landscapes of hope Remembering our beginnings after blood must come pan song and wing Rhythmic tremors/rockers brothers it is a savagery, a brutality, a slaughter- but your voice is our song And will reggeh down the drum-tracks of time ( source: from The Heinemann book of Caribbean Poetry)
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