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i am the keeper of healing witness of
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suffering i am Babalui Oriisha of
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affliction of healing of dust and
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disease i did not arrive in gold or
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thunder i arrive humbly wrapped in
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raphia walking with the sick kneeling
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beside the forgotten i come not to bring
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fear but truth not judgment but
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remembrance the world is burning with
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fevers not born from the body alone but
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from the spirit i feel the tremors in
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the soil the aching pulse of the oceans
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i hear the rattling cough of cities
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choking on their own ambition the forest
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cry out strip bare of their elders the
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animals vanish like dreams humanity
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spins faster yet listens less and so the
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wounds deepen you treat symptoms but
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ignore the roots you cleanse your hands
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but not your hearts you rush to heal
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only what inconveniences you you ask for
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miracles while denying the sacredness of
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life that surrounds you you plead for
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mercy yet close your doors to the
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suffering hear me now healing is not
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passive it is not a pill nor performance
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it is a path one that requires humility
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patience truth you must feel what you've
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numbed grieve what you've buried and
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repair what you've broken healing begins
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when compassion outweighs convenience
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the earth is not sick by chance it is
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sick from neglect from disconnection you
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are not above it you are a part of it
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your breath is its breath your water its
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tears when you poison it you poison
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yourselves i do not speak these words to
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shame you but to awaken you there is
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still time the drum of life still beats
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the spirits still gather the ancestors
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still whisper there is medicine in your
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hands if you choose to use it plant
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instead of plunder share instead of
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hoard listen instead of shout begin
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again forgive where there's fracture
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feed where there is famine sit beside
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the outcast tend the wounds others
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pretend not to see i am Babalui i walk
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with the diseased but I carry the light
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of renewal i have seen death yet I guard
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life my power is not in destruction but
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in restoration even now in this moment
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you are not abandoned you're being
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invited back to balance back to
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sacredness back to each other do not
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delay the Tommy Heel is
