Un re-route the river
Let the dammed water be
There's some people down the way that's thirsty
Let the liquid spirit free
The folk are thirsty
Coz of mans unnatural hand
watch what happens when the people catch wind
of water hitting the banks of the hard dry land
Gregory Porter
People are thirsty for spirit, and for their voice to be
heard. Be it renewal, be it creativity,
the water will go wherever it will go, filing whatever vacuum is
available. Sadly manmade conventions
institutions and ‘tastemakers’ of our day with an eye on demographics often
succeed in creating a dam and funnelling the water into pre-determined
directions preventing its flow reaching places where it can be savoured.
I look to a day when we get out of the way and allow the water
to run freely and reach all people as Gregory Porter eloquently sings:
‘The people haven’t drunk so long,
the water won’t even make mud’