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Quotes from Out Seeing The Fields — Dawud Wharnsby

born 1972 Canada

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I only feel close to you when I‘m under open sky, I only feel guided when I’m free to question why.

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It’s a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego’s shell. True life can’t ever start, until we offer up our heart.

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

All the girls and boys seen preening through school halls, fighting to fit in, games they just can’t win, higher education dumbing down a nation, around the square unsure of where we fit in.

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Pictures of politicians preen across our TV screens, pretensions plaques and posters fill our minds and magazines. Promises a burning match, igniting dreams of straw…

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

I glance reflections of my face everyplace I go, in my mirror and in shop windows, like the lead in my own show. Do I dare look closely? See each wrinkle, scar and flaw?

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

The past we’ve got we must forget. Future hasn’t happened yet. Carry this moment in a song. Insha Allah, it won’t be long.

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Teachers and pop icons, empty drums beat loudest noise. We swap their quotes and CDs like children trading toys. Follow along, bite the barbed hook deep in our jaw...

Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dawud Wharnsby (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.