I'm still here These song notes are kite notes Fire blinking, spelling love in Morse code Floating between bars with messages of life boats No more pipelines, the pipe broke We melted every cage into a key until our mouths could recite hope He said when it rains he pretends the cement is the smell of wet stone He said I want my grandkids to find fossils Of prisons smelling sour like dead bones The moon bowed to the birdsong morning I'm trying to find god in an octave I'm still exploring I mailed you libraries they threw em in the trash The warden took your freedom but couldn't shackle your laugh That's not dew, the prison grass is crying The weeds that grow through the cracks is freedom trying Birds drop seeds in the prison yard Growing gardens of hope conspiring in the dark The vines make a ladder and drape the barbwire A crow flies overhead and drops a lighter Orange reflects from her eye the image is fire The ash swirls like a galaxy the stars wink and admire He said They will never be able to break me Turns out that's what broke the bars I've been reflecting on that lately He said I was dedicated to building things, not tearing them down He said If you can breathe you can get through anything I'm hearing him now He said If you can breathe you can get through anything I'm hearing him now I'm still here A defined voice They removed my whisper From general population to maximum security I gain a voice They removed my voice from maximum security To administrative segregation My voice gave hope They removed my voice from administrative segregation To solitary confinement My voice became vibration for unity They removed by voice from solitary confinement To the supermax of Camp J And now they wish to destroy me The louder my voice The deeper they bury me I said, the louder my voice The deeper they bury me Free all political prisoners Prisoners of war Prisoners of consciousness Herman Wallace, Angola 3 I'm still here This is for Herman Wallace Russell Maroon Shoatz Marilyn Buck Alvaro Luna-Hernandez Iya Fulani Sunni-Ali Romaine Chip Fitzgerald Afeni Shakur Delbert Africa Safiya Asya Bukhari Richard Mafundi Lake Oscar Washington Luis Rodriguez Mondo We Langa Phil Africa Brian McCarvill Hugo Yogi Bear Pinell Geronimo Ji Jaga William Lefty Gilday Alan Berkman Eddie Hatcher Bashir Hameed Robert Hillary King Merle Africa Kuwasi Balagoon Robert Webb Tom Manning And Albert Woodfox Dream of future, know your history Organize your people, fight to win