Teena Marie's Starchild

STARCHILD/A simple and yet complicated nine-letter attachment of man to the heavens/The positive force/significant?/ yes, for it counteracts the negative six/or man to the hells/Spiritual/even in rhythm music consumes me, and in my waking hours as well as my lullabied nights I have known there is purpose in pain as well as joy/for the fine lines on my face, remind me of the people who put them there/and though I quote the poetess wrong/the point is that her thought could have been mine/or yours/or anybody's/and that's what happens with antiquity/no one's new or innovative except the Creator, who puts all thoughts and blessings in our hearts and cerebrums in the first place/I mean I don't even write in this form/so the prosaic evidence of what is happening here is even new to me/Somewhere in this universe/perhaps not upon this planet earth/there lives a mirror image of you and I/not in the physical sense/But in the natural/We are Starchildren/We live/We breathe/We laugh/We cry/We die, and we live again/We are blessed/We walk upon the same hallowed ground that Jesus walked upon/can you imagine the intensity of a light so bright/can you fathom the place where the Gandhis/and the Yoganandas/the Chinmoys/and the Buddhas/the Shivas/and the blessed Virgin Mary dwell/Have you hear Steveland's "Higher Ground"/or Marvin Gaye's "If I Should Die Tonight"/Did you see Cicely Tyson in Sounder/Have you read Don't Fall Off The Mountain by MacLaine/Do you know why the caged bird sings/Ask Maya/or Labelle/or me/or Pennelope/Ask them about the heart/and the mind/and the soul/Ask them about the Steigers/and the Berthalyns/ and "The Great Pretenders"/Ask Mickey about raisin' my Godchildren/and sacrificin'/and how she keeps gettin' up/Though I am drained/I search/for Starchild