Rose

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I FELT ALL ALONE
NO ON THERE TO CARE FOR ME
DADDY LONG GONE
MAMA THREE JOBS DEEP
ALL I REALLY KNOW
IS I HAD ME
AND MY IMAGINARY -IMAGINARY
WORLD

AND I COULD SEE
A CROWD FULL OF FACES
SMILING BACK AT ME
SINGING EVERY WORD I SING
RIGHT ON KEY
I DREAMED IN HARMONY

BUT I DIDN’T KNOW
DIDN’T KNOW
HOW FAR I’D HAVE TO REALLY GO
REALLY GO
INSIDE MY HEART
SHIT GOT LOW
UNBEARABLE
USED TO PRIDE MYSELF NOT LETTING IT SHOW
KEEP THE CURTAIN CLOSED
YEAH

EVERY NIGHT I WROTE
TO A GOD I THOUGHT WOULD BE
UNCONDITIONAL
PRAYING THAT HE’D
UNLEASH ME
FROM THE STRONG HOLD
OF A WOUND SO SO DEEP
COULDN’T BELONG TO ME
SOLELY

They called me
Rose
Rose in the cold
No one to stoke the coal
No love that fit the mould

Rose
Break free from the stone
Dreams wrapped in thorns
This heart
my true home

Taken
far away from myself
mistaken
for a woman
a giver
a vessel of wealth
stay hidden
from his hands
from the belt

for the truth to be felt

can’t deny any longer
the cards i was dealt

too young to realize
the lie before my eyes
a child of god
he conquered
i saw
the beating
the thieving
a mother’s last call
for her life
for the knife
to cut through it all
someone to break the fall

So I
Rose
Rose in the cold
No one to stoke the coal
No love that fit the mould

Rose
Broke free from the stone
Dreams wrapped in thorns
This heart
your true home

I FELT ALL ALONE
BUT THE UNIVERSE CARED FOR ME
MAMA TOOK HER THRONE
FLED THE ABUSE
SHE BROUGHT ME
TO A NEW HOME
WHERE I’D BE FREE TO LEAVE
MY IMAGINARY -IMAGINARY

WORLD BECAME THE KEY
TO THE PEN AND THE STAGE YEAH
MY NEW REALITY
SINGING THE PAIN
IN MY HEART
SET ME FREE
SET ME FREE

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from S A L V E, released August 8, 2020

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NASRA Edmonton, Alberta

NASRA is a queer, Muslim, Oromo multidisciplinary artist living in Amiskwaciywaskahikan (Edmonton)/ Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton 2017. Founder of Black Arts Matter. 2017 Recipient of the Mayor’s Emerging Artist award.NASRA’s chapbook A God Dance in Human Cloth was the co-recipient of the BP Nichols National Chapbook award in 2019. Their newly released EP “Salve” is their latest call to healing. ... more

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