Marked the past
After seeing glimpses from afar
What it will take
To remain in a zone where we escape
Without needing coin or cash
Or a connect
To a world without neglect
Question remains
Deficit makers swindled in this game
Questions again
Rebuilding without vain is the aim
Mirrors needed unplugging
Headspace needed debugging
Seeds of the concrete space
Need water and sun
To decompress from the pressure
That’s relentless
For attention
I don't know it all
But we got a chance if we
Conduct our thoughts
Remember the ones
Who’s got our backs in the thick of it all
Been outside, now we gotta focus
We need to support each other I notice
All we got is us in the moment
To make it through tough times
It is our onus
Been inside, now we gotta know this
We need to support each other and focus
All we got is us in the moment
To make it through tough times
It is our onus
The thread is both seen but felt
Forces have tried to dispel
Our links are woven
The more we deny, it will swell
To un-see this truth is flawed in itself
It’s time to move to the next floor
Or rather the next stage
Or rather the next page
Or rather the chapter where we embrace
The differences make us tied in ways
That may take
1 second to many years
To swallow that bitter pill triggering fears
Or igniting irrational confused insecurity
That questions everything you thought it be
But no better time than the present day
Still being clear
Shit being unclear is kept at bay
Things not here to stay
The change is imminent
It's the only way
Been outside, now we gotta focus
We need to support each other I notice
All we got is us in the moment
To make it through tough times
It is our onus
Been inside, now we gotta know this
We need to support each other and focus
All we got is us in the moment
To make it through tough times
It is our…
Been outside, now we gotta focus
We need to support each other I notice
All we got is us in the moment
To make it through tough times
It is our onus
Been inside, now we gotta know this
We need to support each other and focus
All we got is us in the moment
To make it through tough times
It is our onus
Onus was written by Coby Sey.
Onus was produced by Coby Sey.
There’s both little room for open-ended interpretation and a lot of room for people of different marginalised communities to be reminded that there’s still some common ground; it is still possible to affect things when united.