Higher Authority (an excerpt)

Under the new regime

children from across the waters

navigate trouble with caution

be clear, this is not Zion my babies

freedom was never free

but Divine love is everywhere

let no rhetoric guide thee

stand on shoulders tall if you will

walls built can't interrupt grace

we're chanting down Babylon

trusting JAH the Most High in this race

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

Love Poem

Bobby said I'll never write a love poem

so I'm gonna sing one, sing one...

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Somebody said I'll never write a love poem

so I'm gonna sing one, sing one 

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Got a lot of visions running through my head

about some things some body said

never thought it would get here

I abandon all my fear because
Bobby said I'll never write a love poemm

so I'm gonna sing one, sing one 

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Somebody said I'll never write a love poem

but I'm gonna sing one, sing one 

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Think I better pay attention to my heart
telling me to make a brand new start
so here I go stepping out on a ledge
and to myself I will always pledge 
to be my own love poem

so that you might hear me...feel me

as I un-apologetically 

give you my love

and my poem

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

In My Africa

Sweet rivers flow there
In my Africa
Purple wind...it blows there
In my Africa
Black earth...solid foundation there
In my Africa
Drink the glow of Ra there
In my Africa
When I think of there
I wonder if eternity knows
that its mission means forever
In my Africa

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman