WHEN WILL WE PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE SAGES AND PROPHETS CRY OUT!
REVIEW: ‘DADDY LEFT’ By Decipher
(Daddy: Noun/ Pl –ies) used especially by and to young children, and often as a name to mean ‘father’.
Left: on the side of your body which is towards the west when you are facing north
‘When Daddy left, they question my apartment,
They caught me red handed...’
What can a child do without a father’s guidance? How well will a baby fare without the nurturing of a mother?
Published on the 24th of September 2017, ‘Daddy Left’ is many things to many people but for those who’ve had the rare privilege of sharing a ‘cup of kindirimo’ with Decipher,’ that uncommon Spirit’ in the words of Edgar Alan Poe, ‘Daddy Left’ is one more key to unlocking the purpose of Man.
Ardent fans and followers of the Bard are already familiar with themes such as ‘Mama’, and ‘Arminna’. Themes exploring the complexities surrounding life without guidance, man in pursuit of meaning, and content. Through the eyes of a growing child, this search is metaphorically represented.
The lives of people today are far from orderly, the question of God? The confusion of the sexes, the tyranny of natural disasters, poverty, disease, death and ultimately rebirth! These and more forces humanity (the child) to search for answers through science, through wars, through the blinding darkness of death, of life, but who better to provide answers if not God (the father) but where is he? Simple...
‘I barely know my Dad...’ saying that Daddy is alive but I just don’t know him, compare with ‘Carrier of the knowledge, bearer of the gift; I have been a windmill.’ The search for self, Daddy (God) continues. The answers (whom) we seek saith Decipher are right before us, in us, if we have enough love to see it.
The confusions of humanity abandoned by a divine father are aptly captured in the unmistakable metaphors similes and ironies subtly interwoven in ‘Daddy left’. But beyond this seeming ‘hopeless abandonment’ is the clear cut message of love ‘betrayed love’ some have argued but love all the same requited or not, consider...
‘When Daddy left..., bloodline, I flow with my friends,
Aboki is gini (friend is blood) thicker than water...’
Now compare the above to...
‘Killing brothers with Bayani’ (words)
‘Harka’n (the way of) Cain’
See now, the allusion to the ancient story of Cain and Abel, two brothers. But one brother out of a dark emotion killed the other. The message herein is simple.
Love cannot only be found amongst family. Evil can sometimes emanate from family. Thus, what our world needs today, is love, not just love for friends, and those with whom we are familiar but love for those who are gone, those who are alive, those yet to be born, and our environment for according to Decipher it (environment) too is alive and enduring. You don’t believe me, all right, consider the metaphysical lines...
‘I soil my hands, for my plants to grow
For dreams do, true...’
Beyond the wordless dark alleyway communions, the obvious pun, the painful euphemisms, the life changing loneliness trickling from Emeli Sande’s cord struck with producer X’s dreamlike but evergreen stony wrap, the unending war between shades of light, and this review written at twilight by Deus ex Machina, you, poetic journey man will to the exclusion of the infinitesimal distraction plunge your soul into the sub textual Righting of ‘Daddy Left’ and cultivate love, and joy from the obvious scarlet bloodiness. So, enjoy like fine wine the muse’s blend of a HipHop rhythm, the entertaining tempo, and urgent pace of wartime envoys.
‘This poetry is too sick,
It will save or kill you...!’ -Poetic Oracle