Napowrimo Prompt#1: Shuffle Poem

This Place (Church of Today) - Kem
Do You Only Wanna Dance? - Mya
Goodfellas - Nas & Cormega
City of Gods - AZ
Umi Says - Mos Def
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This place, church of today
Is a sanctuary pillaged of all meaning
The spirits of the people have fled
Searching for salvation in Shango's groove
Twisting torsos to the sun
Toes digging into the black Earth
Flashing bodies of lightening


Do you only wanna dance?

The ancestors sing a hot blood ballad
Shingling our flesh with rhythm
Throbbing pulses, pounding like the ocean
Umi says
We are a people of fire
Dancing flames in the city of Gods

We abandon our ghettos
Leave oppression in the gutters
Give the gritty streets
and gunclap back to the goodfellas
For we are at peace with our true selves
Free, beyond all understanding.