TBOJ - The Wall 5

5

This is the word of Joseph
Disciple of Ras Tafari
Builder of bridges
Communicator with peoples

Let the juices pour into my people
and Holy Smoke anoint their very pores
Let their hair shine in the bright, hot sun
Their hemp shirt hiding smooth skin

If ye build your village by the sand
Give it one mile of trees for protection
For the children, and their children
Forty trees to an acre per stand

Make a line that connects to each other
One-quarter as thick as the town line
Join this one then to another
Creating a circle of Man

From city to town to village
To town to city to mountain
Work with the land, plant a stand
And another and another and another

And join these ones yet again
Ring the farmers field with good green
Hemp fields and local tree legends
Find seed by the river

Now Woman, you know you’re the leader
In Africa, Queen Makeda, Your wisdom
Brought higher with Solomon’s son
Set the stage for your daughters at home

Though seven went north from the Garden
To marry Mediterranean men
You stayed as a leader of People
Your womb gave Re-Birth to Africa

From Imhotep to Moses, Africa was strong
The climate then shifted, something went wrong
The north rose too mighty, too violent
A darkness came over the land

Though My children include
Solomon and Moses, Tut and Nefertiti,
Jethro and Miriam, Antigon and Eteocles
It is for my half-brother Judah
To keep living in Truth

So thank Jah Provider for these last days of man
For Garvey and King, Mandela and Marley
Africa Has Risen, Saviour of Humanity
Jeshua’s Warrior, Jah Ras Tafari

So let it be seen
And make it clearly known
That it is Africa, just Africa
That started this knowledge
AND saved mankind from its power