SAVING INNOCENCE [SPOKEN WORD]

Описание: A SPOKE*IN HE[ARTS] piece put together for www.SAVINGINNOCENCE.org :

SAVING INNOCENCE'S VISION IS TO END THE COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AND RESTORE THE CULTURAL VALUES OF INNOCENCE AND HUMAN WORTH.

Welcome to the TRENCHES, Welcome to the FIGHT to SAVE INNOCENCE!

WORDS:

COUNTERFEIT LOVE GIVERs
Shiny stand alones, arrows wings and fros
WHO MAKE INNOCENCE pose for dimes, quarters and nickels
FOR Sick foes who think they need a quick show
Forgetting who they are, for a quick BLOW,
At the GREATER expense of HER, HIS GEM!

SOLD! Into the hands of HIMS who sing in unison as they fondle the sound of her INNOCENCE, turned into black and blue piano playing KEYS
THEY BANG! Untamed! They open the intimate parts of her being
UNBLAMED! So they, OUR fathers, sons and brothers
Walk this Earth without SHAME,
They say, she's worth less than the very ground she kneels on
TO PRAY!???
NO! the only PREY she knows is the one this VILE foe abuses
The one that looks her back in the mirror with haunting EYES
That struggle to MARKET tears for the WORLD to SEE!

Instead they use HER, a DAUGHTER, placed in the act with a CUPID
Some call HER STUPID, BUT others WILL STAND TO BE HER HOPE!
NOT WITH arrows, some wings and a FRO
BUT WITH a HEART some LOVE and a GLOW
SOME JOY, some EARS and some TIME to get KNOW---HER STORY!

YOU SEE...
SHE gets paid in the color shine
You know, the type that sparkles
The type that makes you want to be a kid again
Because it means you could spend it on candy,
But for INNOCENCE, SHE'S been made the candy
Licked, chewed and spit out, bitten and mocked
ABUSED, and left to feel dirty all over again, and again and again
And again and again...

A repetition of Acts that continue to contaminate the IDENTITY of a HIM
WHILE BLURRING the IDENTITY of a HER-INNOCENCE!
OF a MOTHER, A SISTER, A DAUGHTER, A HUMAN BEING
FLESH and BLOOD, EYES and EARS, SOFT SMALL HANDS
Waiting to be held by a PROTECT-HER!

INNOCENCE!

STORIES UNTOLD
And tears UNCAUGHT, BECAUSE OUR HANDS (MINE and YOURS)
HAVE been too tied up to catch them!
While her hands have been too tied up
To even know what it feels like to wipe them

Will the HIMS/Hymns of old and the HIMS/Hymns of NEW-RISE!
From the pages of dust-filled yesterdays
RISE! from our padded pews & flashy stages & platforms,
Our air conditioned offices & our softly cushioned a lazy boy's chair that has kept us at ease...

Rise! from the silence that introduced us to mute, who stole our voice
HIMS--RISE, so even the BLIND could feel their way
Through the RAISED of OUR letters, OUR VOICES, our words, our GIFTS
TO SING a NEW SONG
TO BECOME A NEW HIM/HYMN FOR OTHERS TO SING...
BUT HEARD BY the listening ears of a HER, HIS DAUGHTER, HIS BELOVED
WHO longs to be EMBRACED BY the ONE who HEALS

Because her HEELS, the ones they make her wear
Have brought her nothing...
But a momentary stature that attracts the very scars she knows too well
Scars, she can't seem to ERASE on her OWN!

SO I, this HIM you hear so clearly, will be HEARD,
YES I, a HIM that will fight the mute-tiny in view for a world to see
TO BE
A HIM, who's SPOKE IN HEARTS will play on the worst of L.A.s STREETS!
LOUD enough to ECHO HEAVEN'S BEAT-
OF A HEART THAT LONGS to SAVE INNOCENCE
OF A HEART THAT LONGS to INTOXICATE INNOCENCE
WITH the AROMA Of her INNER SCENT, her BEAUTY...
To WHISPER HOPE back into her EARS
And PUT JOY back on her LIPS, a glimpse EVIDENCE

That my hands and your hands
NO longer tied to the mundane
WILL RISE, silently pushing fear aside, and placing frivolous next to pride On the SHELF---of LIES, that have kept US SLOWLY moving
IN A WORLD that QUICKLY passes
And HARASSES our ABiLITY TO KNOW, TO ENGAGE, TO RESPOND
TO SAVING INNOCENCE...


Wrote & SPOKE: Michael Perez [PHarez]

Recorded/Edited: Mr. Ricardo Bonafe

Track: Bethel Music Loft Sessions: You Know Me