This one really brings across the sense of 'dreadness' that I was speaking about, the apocalyptic, bitter tone that infused early Rasta dub poetry.

Mabrak
by Bongo Jerry

Lightning
Is the future brightening
For last year man learn
How to use black eyes
(wise!)

Mabrak:

NEWSFLASH!
“ Babylon plans crash”
Thunder interrupt their programme to
Announce:
BLACK ELECTRIC STORM

IS HERE
How long you feel “fair to fine
(WHITE)” would last?

How long calm in darkness
When out of black
come forth LIGHT?

How long dis slave caste
When out of
The BLACK FUTURE
Comes
I
RIGHTS
?

Every knee
Must blow
Every tongue
confess
Every language
Express

WORDWORKS

YOU
MUST
COME
To RAS

MABRAK,
Enlightening is BLACK
Hands writing the words of
Black message
For black hearts to feel.

MABRAK is righting the wrongs and brain whitening – HOW?
Not just by washing out the straitening and wearing dashiki ting:

MOSTOFTHESTRAITENINGISINTHETONGUE – so HOW?

Save the YOUNG
From the language that MEN teach,
the doctrine pope preach
skin bleach.

HOW ELSE?… MAN must use MEN language

To carry dis message:

SILENCE BABEL TONGUES; recall and
recollect BLACK SPEECH.

Cramp all double meaning
And all that hiding behind language bar,

For that crossword speaking

When expressing feeling

Is just English language contribution to increase confusion in

Babel-land tower –

delusion, name changing, word rearranging

ringing rings of roses, pocket full of poses:

“SAR” instead of “RAS”

Left us in a situation

Where education
Mek plenty African afraid, ashamed, unable to choose

(And use)

BLACK POWA (strange tongue)

NOT AGAIN!
Never be the same!
Never again shame!

Ever now communicate – for now I and I come t recreate:
Sight sound and meaning to measure the feeling
Of BLACK HEARTS- alone-

MABRAK : frightening
MABRAK: black lightening

The coming of light to the black world: Come show I the way
Come make it plain as day – now- come once, and come for all

And everyone better come to RAS
For I come far, have far to go from here:

For the white world must come to bloodbath
And blood bath is as far as the white world can reach; so when MABRAK
Start skywriting,
LET BABYLON BURN
JEZEBEL MOURN
LET WEAK HEART CHURN
BLACK HOUSE STAND FIRM: for somewhere under ITYOPIA rainbow,
AFRICA WAITING FOR I