The pride and work that goes into making a saddle, few will ever know
What a lot of detail the saddlemaker has to do
To put together the saddle, made especially for you.
The tooling and the lacing are much more than they appear
But give it the look of excellence as you draw near.
Underneath all that leather lies a rawhide saddle tree
Something that most of us, will probably never see.
But it is the base, from which this saddle will grow
The precision and time, only the saddlemaker knows.
Each one is unique and one of a kind
He's built it over and over, ten times in his mind
When it's finally finished, and he passes it to you
He's praying with his heart, that you'll love it too.
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
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