Kalonjee Gallimore

Kalonjee Gallimore, a brilliant actor/singer/songwriter, with whom I worked in COMMON GROUND expressed his feeling of the current state of affairs as only artists could. I'll be talking to him next week in the PassionPit. Meantime ... he wrote this ...

 

I look around and I watch the world burn.

Elders.. pass the baton sayin’ now it’s my turn.

Covered, head to toe in their ashes I yearn

For lessons untaught, knowledge unlearned.

 

We turn from Sudan, weep for Quasimodo,

Instead of action use a hashtag and a photo.

Infatuated with the likes and the Logos,

But how to get out of this mess, don’t know

 

Can’t even take even take a jog in the street

This mask ain’t the reason I can’t breath

Ankle weights pull me down, locked ‘gainst my feet

But hands up, I guess they staying on me

 

I keep running, faster to you

Running until I breakthrough, running

I keep running, faster to you

Running until I breakthrough, runnin-(Gunshot)

 

RIP…no justice, no peace

And the way this world headed this conflict won’t cease

I was raised to forgive, to love my enemies

But it’s hard when their hatred founded this country

 

Listen to me this, this is not just a rhyme

This is reckless destruction of countless lives

I’m sick and tired of being so tired

We cry into void while you bump Travis Scott

 

Scavenge upon my flesh you vulture

Terminate me, but love my culture

Idolize rappers, ballers, actors

Do you love us, I bet you don’t, ’cause-

 

Gone, before mom could say goodbye -

Bullet in my brain, hands up in the sky -

It’s not safe at home, at church, or outside I just turn into that pound sign and die.

 

I keep running, faster to you

Running until I breakthrough, running (I’m tired of being tired of being tired of being tired)

I keep running, faster to you

Running until I breakthrough, runnin-(Gunshot) (I’m tired of being tired of being tired of being tired)