1. |
liminal (intro)
02:22
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2. |
moss (ft. CRIM)
03:35
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there are lots of things I could’ve done,
but I’m not there yet.
Ways we could’ve won,
If we placed a fair bet, but
That doesn’t seem like the point,
If there is one,
It keeps moving
+ I feel like we just need to keep choosing.
Path laid as we tread through it.
A man told me that once
As we shared a bench on seafront.
He’d been here a while
+ I trusted his smile
+ how it had sculpted lines
That curved around eyes.
He asked if I was peening poetry
Cos of my contemplative face it
Gave it away his
Guess was right.
I sat down,
Shared what I was writing
+ he shared his life.
I felt privileged.
He told me,
Not to forget that we,
Came out of sea as moss did,
So don’t be so sure where you’re going.
To acknowledge our ignorance a start.
We know only what’s in heart,
Pay attention to its beating,
It’s beating.
Vast is the sea our sight lay upon.
Casting thought we untie was forgone.
We sat there in the limitlessness
Watching all the selves we were,
Drift pass.
Forgiving them,
Thanking them,
Seeing their innocence.
We sat there as the limitlessness
+ potential yet to come.
He told me,
Not to forget that we,
Came out of sea as moss did,
So don’t be so sure where you’re going.
The space we dwell,
Liminal.
But isn’t it all in-between.
Even the elder trees are becoming.
I think I thought I had become
But hadn’t
Was sure I knew what this all was
But not I’m gladdened
To know we never will.
We make our own meaning,
Dream as we’re sleeping,
Just as real as what we see
When eyes open.
+ I’ve never felt so awake.
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3. |
space/kiss the flame
04:03
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4. |
tendencies
04:35
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5. |
be still (interlude)
02:56
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6. |
raindrops (ft. CRIM)
04:08
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7. |
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Nothing more damaging
To growth than comparisons.
+ im trying to befriend me,
I’m trying to navigate the unseen,
To not just see what I want to,
But look beneath,
To recognise the nuance
An algorithm can’t compute,
Escape the chamber that echoes back to you.
Im trying to balance my borrowed time
Without being weighed down on one side.
No longer concerned with relationships
one-sided.
Or love that is conditional.
I want to see how it’s conditioned all
This, So I cant unlearn it.
+ like I said I’m trying to befriend me.
To enquire. Gently.
It seems
Heart and mind they divide + conquer,
So
How to redraw the line,
I wonder.
+ wander through body.
I’m trying to get clear with identity,
But is it really for me.
I can see that I am more + less than a gender.
I can see in the mirror
A figure
Sometimes matching my feelings
+ sometimes not.
I can see this constant flux has no end.
Beauty lies in the process.
I’m learning to process
Emotions.
Cos a lot of the time I bypass them,
I try to release
before looking at the shape of grief.
I try to let go before letting be.
+ like I said I’m trying to befriend me.
So I, slow down.
When tiredness is pulling at our sleeves
+ everything else is pulling you to move,
Just slow down.
When space in chest fills into tightness,
Reach in
pull your heart out.
+ watch it beat in your hand.
Know this is your simple aliveness.
Let us notice the particularities
of those who are familiar.
Notice a strange, how they move,
How this room that we’re used to
Looks new in midas light, golden.
These moments I will try not to hold them,
But just notice.
The only thing to hold is
my own, these bones I hold them gently
as im learning to befriend me.
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8. |
glory
04:28
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9. |
universe (outro)
04:42
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aim king Aberystwyth, UK
spoken word artist from london, based in mid-wales.
poetry / ecology / documentary
here's to liminality.
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