Just Words (Spoken Word).

My mind is a canvas To which my words are the paint brushes And my voice the colours I use to draw a picture so detailed You would be hard pressed to decipher this writer When trying to figure out if the story I told was true Or if I'm an elaborate liar My gift, if you could call it that Is to weaponise these words So even if you oppose the things I say By the time the sunsets on this day And I have phrased my words in ways That you would at least see my perspective And the lens through which I view things at Imagine that If you will That I have a way with words so skilled That I can adjust my tone from love to kill And with this delivery conduct the way you feel I'm like a maestro at an Orchestra Telling my story through music And using the words I say To convey the way I may have felt that day So you can have a window into my mind's eye And appreciate my mind state Or relate to the emotions I put out And consider for a moment the tone when describing my involvement See I didn't want this I was chosen And now when I state with conviction words that are cold I leave hearts frozen because you can relate to me That is if I have done what I am meant to do successfully And when it comes to flows there's not a person who is next to me And if there is ill cut them out your life Like a vasectomy or hysterectomy No discrimination Some say that I'm overly cold now Do one thing that upsets me and I'll cut myself from your life like a C-Section I told you words are my weapons I could show you all the ways I could love you And put that down on paper in ways you never thought you could fathom Or I could turn those words on you And hurt you in ways you wouldn't dare to imagine And yet I choose to use and abuse these words To make you understand them. Understand me Show you all the things that I try to be My goals, fears, struggles, regrets, Some people would never dream of sharing the things I share And yet they don't spare the time to listen I feel that is a disrespect And yet They wanna turn to me and look me in my eyes And despite everything I have shared with them Say that they feel neglect So may I ask you this? When's the last time you took the time Sat down and put pen to lines And thought about the ways to redefine And simply said to a person I love you, And I don't mean whatsapp'd luv Smiley face heart emoji co-signed by the number 2 I talking from the bottom of your beating heart Sat down and felt the spark Of how without them your life would fall apart and let them know I the person to whom your speaking to L Love you let me explain to you O for begin overwhelmed by the share site of you V valiantly would run to prove that E may equal MC squared But divide my life and I will be the square root of you Y for the youthful joy you make me feel O for the way your devoid of Objectivism In relation to me I need to mention that U under the stars are all I need And if you play back what I said but before you hit repeat You will see that what I just spelt out at the start of each was I love you When's the last time you did that, without the aid of a text whatsapp? In fact forget the last time when's the first you did that? I'd put my life on it that you've never even Thought about the way you could make Another person feel if you said that Like if I turn back the pages of the chapters which is your life Id more than likely find You unwittingly neglect those deserved of your emotions But invest your time in people you know in the back of your mind In your darkest hour wouldn't be by your side Now I'm not judging you or them. I'm just confused on who you choose to call loved ones and friends And even though I'm not a betting man Ill go further 'still' and throw my soul upon the table That you probably say to a less deserving ilk Daily the way you feel for them But these are just words The meaning is deeper Some of cling to those that be written in scriptures They're often the first weapon drawn in a fight or conflict And yet some people choose to ignore let me change the subject Return to me. I'm just speaking words so you can see That when I'm alone at night and I start to write That's the true Lincoln that you see. So if you're wondering where his been Its right in front of you all this time you just refused to believe Just Words