ROYAL LINEAGE
& the Bomani Warriors
Young men and women of all of us
you are of all of us
wide and great young people
just choose, I say choose
do not wait to be told what
games to play
For predictions will win and lose fortunes away
Now go create a world
For all of us – Built on mothers love, on love
of fathers, brother, sister, husbands, wives – be good to us,
We’ll hold doors wide open to your freedom
Be bold and haughty if you will, be humble still
Be on your own truth, your own path – aside
From Western lies, from evil eyes
Be men and women of spirit ties & anger
When the lions come
Go now Create, I say, Build on Fathers dreams
and grandma’s Hills – see them clear from cool blues,
from their minds and make them real to
Dance upon – you are given these keys, this day,
with this breeze of living sanction – use them wise,
sons and daughters use them.
They will guard you
If you respect them & all of us, your people.
These keys will send you on journeys, on odysseys
That few others have known
And when you are grown
Remember this day and your parents, your friends, your people,
Remember to help some others, young ones to believe in you
And themselves
And all of us.
