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EMPTY

Dem a gone again into space I ask you What about the human race Right here pon the planet Earth What dem a do out deh When nuff plenty fi do down Right here Pon Motha Earth Na give I dat story It a go benefit mankind You know it na true Coz it na a go help Wit the people right down here Come down and plant I&I feet Right here you belong In mind, body and soul And so space You too empty,empty, e-m-p-t-y..... Errol Lam (1998)

MEDITATION

Provide for I&I Father Let the wind carry I to a better place Let the Wickedness stay far behind And keep I at a rythmic pace Take I to a far land Perhaps to Mt. Zion Lead I away from babylon Help I to seek the Conquering Lion Irie Meditaions on my side I&I gonna keep on trottin Staring straight at the light All the pain and suffering not forgotten If I shall stumble and fall I pray unto you that you pick I up Take I to a far off land And dont let I stop Ras Kyle I

RAINBOW

Red is the color of the blood once shed. Brought forth from thoughts who strived in battle now dead. Laying in that of his own bed, And now the battle belonging to that of a dread. Natty dread, noty dread. The yellow is gold & sun shine, of divine, A sheltering mold, Giving fisherman warmth to survive the cold, Bare fore witness to this being told, Green being the land in which moss mapped and solid, Once beautiful & flurished of lion's dens & things with out end, Now turns old, Black being origin of man, Brought forth to live, & living to expand, Now a reighteous mans chant preach rainbow, & say stand. Leon Gordon (Fishamon)

A HYMN TO THE CONCEPT OF RASTA

Rasta is Love Rasta is hope Rasta is vision Rasta is good Rasta is beauty Rasta is a river Rasta is spirit Rasta is Rasta is I Rasta is light Rasta is joy Rasta is night Rasta is coming Rasta is divine Rasta is inside Rasta is cuss

Rasta is ends Rasta is water Rasta is geometry Rasta is round Rasta is here Rasta is heaven Rasta is universe Rasta is beginning Rasta is bread Rasta is majic Rasta is a child Rasta is blood Rasta is curve Rasta is humor Rasta is water Rasta is Africa

Rasta is

-Ras T

GREETINGS ELOHEIM, MY FATHER, GOD ABOVE ALL, HE WHOSE WILL SHALL BE DONE, I, NOT OF MYSELF, BOW BEFORE THEE IN THE NAME OF THINE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, JEHOVAH, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS, I THANK THEE FOR THINE SON AND FOR HE, SUBMITTING AND SUFFERING THE WILL OF THEE IN ALL THINGS FROM THE BEGINNING -- I PRAY THEE THAT I MAY TROD THAT SAME ROUTE - THINE WILL BEING DONE - I THANK THEE FOR GIVING HIM POWER AND AUTHORITY TO CREATE, AND ORGANIZE, AND ASSEMBLE, THIS EARTH ON WHICH I STAND - THOU ART MY ROCK, MY GUIDING LIGHT, MY ROCK AND MY ANCHOR, WHEREIN I MAY TRUST IN THEE TO DELIVER I FROM SATAN, I KNOW THAT THOU WILL, THOU ART MY GOD, I WILL LOVE THEE WITH ALL MINE HEART AND ALL MINE STRENGTH AND ALL MINE MIGHT - I PRAY MINE MIND SHALL BE FOREVER FIXED UPON THEE, UNMOVABLE, ALWAYS DWELLING UPON THEE, GIVING THEE GLORY AND HONOUR FOR ALL THINGS - FOR ME, OF MYSELF, ABOVE MYSELF, BELOW MYSELF, AROUND MYSELF, WITHIN MYSELF, AM NO MORE THAN THE DUST OF THE EARTH - ONLY WITH THEE MAY I ABOUND IN GOOD WORKS AND NOBLE THOUGHTS - ONLY WITH THEE MAY I HAVE CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART -- ONLY WITH THEE MAY I ESTABLISH THY ZION IN THESE LAST DAYS --------- THOU ART BENEATH ALL THINGS, THOU ART ABOVE ALL THINGS, THOU ART WITHIN ALL THINGS, THOU ART AROUND ALL THINGS, THOU ART ALL KNOWING AND ALL POWERFULL, THOU ART THE LORD OMNIPOTENT -- I WILL PRAISE THEE, GLORIFY THEE, EXALT THEE, WITH ALL THOU HAST GIVEN I I WRITE IN THE NAME OF THINE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THROUGH THE SPIRIT WHICH THOU SENDEST IN HIS NAME ------------ THANK GOD ------------ AMEN Scott William Dwyer

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