Lyrics Sheba's psalm (feat. Ale Hop) - Poetra Asantewa

My god, my god, why have you discarded me?
I reek too heavily of despair for you not to smell me
Why do you not show me your face?
There is a wound where my heart beats
And I cannot find a resting place for my ache
My pain sits in my lungs and every dark thing
Is holding its breath inside me
My God, whose am I if not yours?
I cry out so loud even cicadas are distressed by my song
My knees have french-kissed the ground into oblivion
You who sees me
I call you by all your names yet you do not answer
Were you not here before this body came into being?
Are you not the one who stamped mountain tops
For shoulders atop this frame?
Are you not the one who kneaded the waist of a cello
Into my hips and harmonized dimples into my lower back?
You who made the peel of my flesh so sensitive
That breath tickles my skin
You know this body like the inside bark of an axed cedar
You knew this body when its beauty caused a monarchy
To ditch his honour and yet you loved me
You will know this body seconds before rot begins
Why do you not open your ears to me?
Mothers before me have willed their lives to you
And you never failed them
Women have forfeited their breath in exchange for sons
And you answered them
Men have leaned heavily on you and you never faltered
But they call me irredeemable
For sins that aren't mine alone to bear
They blame me for a king's desires
As if I too were not a servant to his lust
Everyone looks at me in disdain
They call me cursed, she whose love kills men
She whose beauty hangs over a city like bad weather
Come to my rescue
I cannot continue to bootstrap my life into prominence
Whom do I have but you?
I have scratched my throat sore from calling out to you
Abba, your name is beginning to hurt the roof of my mouth
How long will anguish contaminate this household?
Fear holds my mind hostage
Tottering even in daylight
My mind finds no use for my body
My God hear my pain and answer me in love
Do not let my hope return to me malnourished
Do not let me be brandished by sorrow
Don't stay silent, overpower my woes with your mercy