Angelish

 A Hip Hop Manifesto for John Sacelli

“Equate rhyme with reason” – Saul Williams

ever notice how certain words seem meant to rhyme

and you know this because they get used all the time

together / weather or not it’s cliché / its music /

assume it’s a part of this way we communicate /

ruminate on this thing called language

and tell me it isn’t how we sing all our anguish

for Love / for connection with others / reflecting

Mother Nature above and below us / all around us /

what miracle found us with speech?

this wizard technology through which we reach

between souls and into the very bowl of Creation?

roll with me now / i’m teaching poeducation:

welcome to Angelish 101 / a tongue

which, though strange, is so much fun /

start with the premise that all forms of Meaning are one /

then start gleaning Truth from all wordplays and puns /
find Divine by uniting both sides of the mind /

drink the Wine of you / you are Buddha-full Being /

look within at the Starlight / then bring what ur seeing

to yr outer spacetime / write yr life in alignment

with the Stream / a line meant to carry yr dreams / see

speaking is prophecy / gods work on teams /

words are weirds, which is why they are spelled /

by the words we speak our own lives are held /

we are sentenced to live by the spells which we cast /

so we speak sentences / intentions that last /

as humans we must learn to master this magic /

now pay close attention cuz it’s gonna go fast / yo

this here be lyrical alchemy / all – key – me /

as in the key to knowing All be me /

my own soul is the key to unlock Heaven’s gate /

now please allow me to demonstrate /

homophones are Dhamma poems: my eye is my i /

hay más en otras idiomas / ai ai ai! /

ah more! / bilingual puns / i love em /

they may be bad but i can’t act like i’m above em 

anymore than the sun shining like my sol /

can’t deny the pun-ness / it’s waving like ola! /

God’s Poetry / Jah know it’s me /

why i’m sowin seeds over these flowin beats /

Spirit kicks / 26 letters let Her out /

went to college but self-knowledge was a better route /

g – u – r – u: yr own guru

lives inside / that’s right / jesus? gee, he’s us!

mind-blowing or what? find knowing in gut /

are you getting it now? are you letting it touch?

are you getting in to it /  getting better intuiting

this duet between language and music we do /

that’s Angelish / funny and deep at the same time /

beauty rings true when you hear that name chime /

it’s the game of rhyme, played since ancient times /

relating the Divine thru fun puns and punchlines /

hip hop does the same thing / check it /

off the list / i’m poppin off with this now /

it’s mystical code / the artistic mode

which insists upon going the unknowable road

into Self / travel deep / and keep going /

delving / unraveling knots / watchu know?

break it down like this / make it sound right with /

with the beat you bring / when you speak truth, sing / say,

this musicality is sacred stuff /

True Reality / we didn’t make it up /

it was always there / drifting on the air /

in the moving breeze sifting thru the trees /

in the rolling seas / the drumming raindrops’ soothing

percussion / the thunder booming from above /

in bird calls / and fall leaves underfoot /

humans understood that this Wonder was good /

that these sounds we heard were like god’s own words /

so we started responding and the line got blurred /

imitating Nature’s abounding creations

we channeled Her magic into sound vibrations /

and this imitation must have been the first music /

and thus the first language / how else could we do it?

every body understands beating drums / our hands

speak a vocab we didn’t make / Life planned it /

we were blessed with bodies and rhythm came with em /

an inborn god-given mystical system / a way

to pray thru play so stay ok always /

all days of living are sacred in all ways /

as kids, we knew the Truth / that it’s magic /

now we must access our youth and imagine /

i – mage in me – must defy limitations /

reclaim citizenship of the image – eye – nation  /

revise the pre-sent with the eyes of a poet /

reinvent the world and humankind as we know it /

it starts with a question: a quest – i – on /

who am i? how do i pen my song?

change starts with the songs and the wrongs you right

within yr search / u n i verse from the Poetree of Life /

best be leaf! / manifest O! / let my chi ka go! /

free myself so i can help my people get goin

like moses / i know it / you don’t have to believe it /

it’s just mythology / my theology / see in

this human existence there are only fictions /

pick yr reality / make yr own dictionary /

speak Angelish / the original language /

before babylon babbled on its mad path

in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God

and the Word was God / and the earth is Her body /

but Her soul is eternal unnameable Tao /

primal power / the meaning of WOW / this Now /

now how we gonna save this / take this home?

the answer’s in sanskrit / the base is OM…