Soul Music, Food And Wine

Soul Music, food and wine
For the hunger of our days
Expression of the mortal and divine

Stevie Wonder, Lauren Hill
Seize and sing the moment when
The loving heart becomes sublime and still

Curtis, Marvin, bass and horns
Cast protesting visions high
Into the stormy sacred sky

O’Jays, Dusty, Frieda Payne
Romantic love on a peace train
Incited dreams while the Supremes
Washed my senses in the rain

Now when I was a boy I knew
No black and white – only blue
I knew the charts by heart
And sang the songs at night

Recording off the radio
With my reel-to-reel machine
Alan Freeman’s pop picks
Every Sunday night at six

I asked Sam, not knowing he was slain,
Where’s that change that’s gonna come?
The little tent of freedom has been down so long

Then I met up with Kool and the Gang
Down by the Okavango Swamp
Most of the village dancing in a celebration stomp

Waking up to rhythms fresh
By Marley when two sevens clash
My baby said to stay in bed
And there Jah music kept me fed

And now Soul Music, R and B
Alicia, India.Arie
Hang my mind out in the sky
On a second happy high

But there’s no need to call
All the great names on a roll
Just let me hear the songs instead
And vocalise inside my head

Hearing as if for the first time
Seeing that the world in this time
Needs to keep the Gods impressed,
Fed with soul food at its best.