Friday August 8th, 2008

The exercise:

Def Poetry Jam Friday brings you Asia, performing The Waiting Hour.

Mine:

I have watched many, many a performance from Def Poetry Jam and this is the first one that made me cry.

Powerful, passionate, vulnerable, funny, courageous, candid... this piece was all of that and more. If you can listen to that without being moved... I'm sorry, but there's something wrong with you.

Stories of failure, succumbing to struggle, death and despair are all around us. What a beautiful reminder this was that there are true triumphs still to be found, even if the evening news would have you believe otherwise.

Here's another Asia piece on YouTube for you.

1 comment:

Marc said...

Updated and corrected, original post had a careless mistake on my part.