[audio http://amirsulaiman.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/mark-my-words.mp3]

mark my words
words will mark their marksmen
words will push bullets backwards into their barrels
and brothers back into the bosom of their mothers
betwixt lovers
language pushes love into love
and thereafter pushes love into life

if it weren’t for rumi
they would have
ruined me
luminous language
lit
lovers lane
traversed by the drunk and insane

language
like liquor
an elixir
that licked her
earlobe
to let her know she was not alone
not the only lonely
soul knowing
that in the morning
we’d be mourning
the night
that kept our nakedness
from sight

in private
I speak the truth almost inaudibly
such that
I can hardly
hear the God in me
there is a harmony
if sang with sincerity and clarity
one’s soul will transcend
one’s anatomy
angels and ancestors
in one’s veins and arteries
the silent majority
attempted a lobotomy
to cut the lumumba malcolm marley mansa musa outta me

no more fear
they either martyr me
or pardon me
it doesn’t matter
I am not matter
I wish I was an anomaly
but im more normal
than I thought I ought to be
but it is not fitting
for me to
ignore the most precious part of me

my secret

the difference between
melody and harmony
harmony
requires more than me

your secret

in unison we must all sing
your secret that is lost in me
my secret that is swimming
in your heavenly body

until God is in plain sight
the full moon on a cloudless night
mark my words

hallelujah

amen

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DUNYA is the first music film from The Meccan Openings project. the term “dunya” is an arabic term that essentially means “the temporal world”. this is a pretty good definition.

the term “music film” is a term that was developed between i and film director Mustafa Davis. we have teamed up to produce the series of video that will bring The Meccan Openings to the screen. they are too much like short films to be called music videos and too much like music videos to be called short films. hence, music film.

the other defining characteristic of this project is that all of the music films follow a narrative, albeit an abstract one, that traverses a winding path in an exploration of ego, heart, soul and spirit. the album itself has a strong narrative and Mustafa’s music films will usher that narrative onto the screen. i am very excited about the endeavor. we know it is a daunting task, no doubt, but one we look forward to engaging. i hope you find good in them.

heres the song. the short music film premiers here Monday, June 1st.

Love&Love

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