E65: The Sankofa Session: Afraid of the Night

Josephus· Host0:00

And now the Sankofa section. This is Afraid of the Night, y'all. A little bit from our past, standing in our present, moving towards our future.

Tashawn· Guest0:08

[audience applauding] Hi, everyone. How y'all doing?

Speaker 20:17

What's up?

Tashawn· Guest0:18

Um- All right ... the average heartbeat for an adult is 60 to 90 beats a minute, and right now mine is at like 185. [laughing] So y'all just pray for me right now.

Speaker 20:29

[laughing] Amen.

Tashawn· Guest0:30

Um, but right now I'm gonna read you a piece called, um, Afraid of the Night. And how many people have a lot of thoughts at night? You know?

Speaker 20:38

Yes.

Tashawn· Guest0:38

You think about your troubles, you know? Right now I'm gonna pretend like all y'all my cousins or something.

Speaker 20:43

Okay.

Tashawn· Guest0:43

Family, hallelujah. [laughing] It's called Afraid of the Night. When the last ray of the sun kisses the horizon and the sparrow's, sparrow's tune is silenced, when the moon is awakened from its slumber to rise once more to grace the sky with its presence, there is a stirring in my mind and in my soul. Unwelcome by day, these manifestations clearly rooted in the heart of idleness have authority in darkness, where all that is and was lives. I'm afraid of the night and of the truth that it brings. Swallowed up by what it is entirely, by the fear of what I may come to be and the courage to pursue it, by the understanding of what makes sense to me that makes sense