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I had a dream I got shot in Harlesden

Local ends -- I got shot in Harlesden

So called friends? I put nuttin past 'em

I was left for dead but I wasn't just left dead, woke

Up on my death-bed. I got caught slippin' like a

Brixton gangster in Peckham stylin'. My

Picture in the Metro, my bredrins wil'in. Recon-

Ciling myself with this wreck & smiling. Then I

Noticed 5 ghosts standing around me looking

Like most mandem in Ralphies. The

1st ghost turned to the second like "Fam

Why's he looking like he doesn't recognise man?"

That's when I realised they looked angry as Hell, Heaven

Knows they probably wanted to shank me as well

Quite scary and spooky? Try eerie and bookie, fam I

Felt like I slipped into a Nigerian movie


The first ghost said to me "we were your gifts, we em-

Powered you so you didn't need the four-fifths. It's

Not about luck, we were supposed to be with you, &

Anything else you believed was all myths

As you might have guessed I was the gift of the gab. For

Every single time you got a lift to the cab or got a

2 for 2 without paying £2...the

Gift of the gab shifted the slab weighing you down. You

Probably think you made good use of me init? Any

List of great talkers you should be in it? You'd be

Twanging right now if it wasn't for your health, cause

When have you said anything that wasn't for yourself?"


The second ghost was all like "you know the score like...

I was your ability to learn. You could copy what you

Saw and didn't need a turn, anywhere mimicry was

Physically concerned. I

Gave you more tricks of the trade than Nicholas Cage at a ri-

Diculous age. At 15 you worked at the

Barbers under minimum wage and there was

None of that with which you didn't engage cause you

Had more of me than usual. Stupid

Fool, what did you even use it for? You coulda

Used it more -- true or false? Can you recall

Tryna pursue a cause that you would call 'true' at all?"


Third ghost told me "I was your gift of understanding

Education-wise, you done the damn ting. Then you

Flipped it to the Gyalist In Wonderland ting &

Crowned yourself king cause of all of that attention you

Found yourself in... As a teen you

Understood more than youngers should but that

Wouldn't excite you like getting numbers would

So you never used me with great persistence to

Break the systems and make a difference


That's when I got the strength to speak. I said "I'm

Twenty years old what was I meant to be?

Free World leader of the century? I couldn't have

Been what you think I was potentially. I

Got into King's College Cambridge University d'you

Know what I went through? I had to slew adversity so

Sorry if you ain't what you'd prefer to be but I

Think you lot are deluded, personally."


Then there was an awkward silence


Then the fourth ghost was like...the

Fourth just said "Look George go to bed. It's a

Waste of time if you can't see why we're here

If you're in a rush to go, the green light is there" I said

"Wait, I ain't heard from the fifth & you...furthermore

What gift were you?" He said "it's

Pointless", all sighing, "cause the

Point is you're dying

We deserved the time that you never got to give us and

Now your life is over we never got to live up

*You were more concerned who was rolling to the rave with

You. Now your gifts are going to the grave with you. You coulda

Made good use of me or number 5 most but

Now your 5 Seeds have now become the 5 ghosts.*


I watched them disappear, covered in piss and fear

Wishing that I had my brothers & sisters there

Picturing myself in Government then explaining to

God why I never beheld his covenant. I

Realised how much potential I had wasted. I

Realised death was the only guarantee &

Life had been honest; it honoured its promise, so the

Only right I had was the right to be mad at me. The

Way I felt sidelined was crazy, on a

Big man ting I just cried like a baby

Sorry for the times that I never spoke up, I prayed for

One more chance. Then I woke up 

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