Run boy you’d better run for the hills,
when this damn breaks open heavy emotion will spill.
Filling the colour-scape I’m hiding away,
behind the whites of my eyes and the fear of another day.
Sun splashes masking the sound,
Of the colour sliding down my rainbow to drown.
My teeth are ready and they’re sharper than my tongue,
I’m chomping at the bit so get ready to run.
I’ve been hiding miles of ancestral sorrow,
behind these pearly whites shining bright for tomorrow.
Hold my head high paint a smile for the world,
cover clouds casting a shadow over my birth.
I’ve been drystone-walling inequality, pent up aggression,
stuffing the gaps with my unease to give a nice impression.
Tooth fairy fairly close but barely watertight,
this damn is close to bursting under heavy duty floodlights.
And, damn right this damn would damage you,
pushing through emotional magnitude.
Forcing a grin through thin gritted teeth,
tasting the grit through the soles of my bare feet.
This grief, buried deep beneath,
stacks of wood cut by the keeper of the keeper of the key.
I’m keeping the real me free from years of fairytales,
slowly picking away dirt from underneath my nails.
Beautiful like the rosebud blossoming in summer lights,
sun raise the spirit make you live above life and beyond.
Like dream on.
Freedom, strong.
Change like seasons, free like the wind through the trees,
natural there’s a million reasons to love yourself,
so pick one.
Don’t you dwell on sorrow, time aint borrowed we must live it,
choices cradle your palms,
only you can grip it only you can choose the right path.
Only you, only you with the spirit,
don't pass on any opportunity,
equal to every face in your community,
precious like a diamond with a face of beauty,
as a whole piece together we are unity…
credits
from Diving Deeper,
released November 12, 2021
production: Doc BlackDaWho
mix & mastering: Jamie Winchester
A DJ, Bgirl and Graffiti Writer, Unity delivers poetic lyrics over HipHop beats.
Her lyrical
journey started with a poetry slam win in 2018. Unity has supported the likes of Kae Tempest, Holly McNish, Verb T, Jam Baxter and Blak Twang.
Releases:
‘Progress is a Process’ (2020) ‘Garden of My Soul’ (2021)
'Diving Deeper' (2022)
'Red & Blue' (2022)
'Stormy Weather' (2023)...more