A Stitch or Nine (Imajika Suite)

Featured photography by Sharon Lawson and Richard Charles Stevens

Listen to A Stitch or Nine by Richard Charles Stevens (Imajika Suite)

Listen to Imajika (Wislov Remix) by Hyper On Experience

It only takes one stitch
To change the world

Incubate the seed
Incubate the seed belief can feed
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)

Make somebody’s day
And pay it forward
Head down to the deep south
Facing northward
Matters not one jot if you are awkward in your stance
Strangers may appreciate the glance

Only takes one smile
To place a warm glow in the heart
Embracing artform sworn to go the extra mile
Only takes one kind act
To in turn deserve another
Thus discovering a place to rest awhile

Only we possess the tools
To press on through each crested fall
And still come to in some place fresh and scenic

Grant somebody’s wish
To gift inspire
When they lift you
Elevate them higher
Matters not one jot if you are teetering from spire
Seafaring eyes prize the frequent flyer
(Change the world)

(Change the world)
(Change the world)
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)

Only takes one second
To undress the flesh of bind
Step out of the skin we’re in
And leave the rest behind
Only takes one destiny
To wink at fate suggestively
Only takes one deed
To act in kind

Make somebody’s dream come true
To see the sunlight beaming through
Windows to a soul supposed to glow
Matters not one jot the ebb and flow of essence undertowed
Only that there’s some place left to go

Only takes hello
To open up communication lines
Only takes one back
To track wherein reciprocation lies
Only takes one brush
To paint in strokes as open broad or fine
Only takes one lucky star
To redefine the skies
Astride the borderline
(Change the world)
Redefine the skies
Astride the borderline
(Change the world)
Redefine the skies
Astride the borderline

Only takes one scar
To see a thousand tales end well
Only takes one pouting kiss
To tell
Grant somebody’s wish
And lift them higher than yourself
For it only takes one stitch
To change the world

It only takes one stitch
To change the world
Only takes one stitch
To change the world
Grant somebody’s wish
And lift them higher than yourself
For it only takes one stitch
To change the world

Spun from the lace
Of another time and place
And in contrary way
You’ve barely just begun
Remember always
The tears of every duct once wrung
The years you nearly came undone
The days when clearly you played dumb
The weeks that soon changed into months
Defeats paraded all at once
Then take great comfort from all you have overcome

Remember always
The games you played in school hallways
The way it felt when out of place
The cards they dealt
The poker face
Knowing full well you were different from the rest of the curriculum
The silence that replaced your rightful place to be articulate
Remember always
That there was one thing in particular
That made you most dissimilar to those whose hopes lay wasted

Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine

Every sun kiss tasted
Is a day redecorated
To midsummer night a dream
And every reason left to chase it
Naked to the flowers which empower bones to enthrone them
Hero of the hour with towering heart apart wide open
Remember always
That every shower tides the ocean
Once we glance behind to power forward motion
Motion
Motion

Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)

(Change the world)
(Change the world)
Taste the sun
(Change the world)
(Change the world)
Taste the sun
(Change the world)
(Change the world)
Taste the sun
(Change the world)
(Change the world)
Taste the sun
(Change the world)

Remember always
The miles you traversed
The curses you lifted
The furthered ellipsis
The taste of a kiss from the sun
The endless walkways you have run
And the grace with which you ably overcome
Remember
All the ways
To taste the sun

Remember
All the ways
To taste the sun

Remember
All the ways
To taste the sun
(Taste the sun)