However the drums couldn’t be silent.
They had been all the time heard.
When the land grew to become darkish,
After the depraved sucked
Advantage from the solar,
The drums introduced the sunshine,
And the ft had been all the time listening.

Knowledgeable by the previous,
They honored the Yoruba in motion,
Backs and arms may give up,
However the ft by no means may.
They introduced magnificence to the ugliest world.

And the ft didn’t go anyplace with out the tune.
The tune believed the sum was higher than the elements,
So there was all the time a response to the decision.
You may hear it within the delicate intonations of the group,
That what occurred to you occurred to the remainder of us.

That is an excerpt from the poem “The Eyes Have It,” by Lens award-winning contributor Chuck Perkins. It’s excerpted by permission from his new e book, Stunning and Ugly Too, revealed by the College of Louisiana at Lafayette Press.

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