Open Wide

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here …

 

Words save us, hands catch souls, and gestures make us loving life. Everything begins and ends in Memories. And everything in Life has at its basis, without beginning, without end, FRIENDSHIP. Sometimes we need to be children, sometimes we need to be caught, sometimes kindness, wisdom, sensitivity fall asleep in seas of sadness, in search of identities. “I can be an asshole of the grandest kind” and still “I am the kindest soul with whom you’ve connected”.

I keep on saying ‘thank you’, I keep on falling, but there are some persons closed in my heart that are always here. They feel us, they trust us, they give us words and gestures and hugs in times of need. I gave silence, sadness, tears, fear. And there are people like us, with the same ideas, with the same world, respecting the rules that has formed our souls;  there are cold, stubborn people who become so warmth and so here when we need them, scolding us for our thoughts, soothing our wounds, seeing them when we hide, hearing our crying when we give silence, hugging our souls when we are rejecting every touch. Because they know the truth behind our masks, because they know they must stop us in order to breathe again, because they know the language of Friendship, of Human Soul, the language beneath all words and gestures ... For this kind of people, for those who see, and for those who LOVE our rays of lightness and of darkness, we dare to open slowly our souls, taking their hands and stepping into Life. 

OPENING WIDE, in fears, in hope, opening the world for us, opening in mistakes and blames and broken hearts ... but opening in everything that Life means.  

Open up yu mind mek some riddim cum in
Open up yu brain do some reasoning
Open up yu thoughts so we can connect
Open up fe knowledge an intellect,
Open up de speaker mek we blast de sound
Open up de sky mek de Bass cum down
Open up yu eyes mek we look inside
If yu need fe overstand dis open wide.

Open up yu house mek de Refugee cum in
Yu may overstand an start helping
Open yu imagination, gu fe a ride
If yu want fe overstand dis open wide
Open up yu fiss an welcum a kiss
Getta loada dis open up business

Open up yu Bank Account an spend
Open up yu wallet an chech a fren,
Open up de dance floor mek I dance
Open up yu body an luv romance
If yu have not opened up, yu hav not tried
See de other side an open wide

Open up de border free up de land
Open up de books in de Vatican
Open up yu self to any possibility
Open up yu heart an yu mentality,
Open any door dat yu confront
Let me put it straight, sincere and blunt
Narrow mindedness mus run an hide
Fe a shot of overstanding
Open Wide.

     By Benjamin Zephaniah