Driven by the Battle Drum

Is pain the only way to tell if we're awake Caresses do not help us differentiate Is the joke of our mortality That we can only frame our reality with our malady Can we know abundance without scarcity What would be the flavor of my stanza If I only knew bonanza A pinch is not sole way to ken a dream Epiphany affords me lucidity like a daylight beam Tiffany's told me that I am a gem Of a cut and a clarity quite unseen Conveyed to them, key to my gleam Is that I reflect only light from a heavenly source Never divorce Your passion from your action when you choose a trail Roughness in the path can offer traction Use the wind to sail Fame's a fragrance that you cannot sample And once it's sprayed upon you It can only be removed with time or scalpel And unbridled anger or vigor Is Russian roulette with a skeleton And echo chamber's bullet in the chamber Love is a god that demands worthy sacrifice Time and commitment and vulnerability Readily I will deliver my heart to pay price To the best of my present ability I don't want to be the train Off which you feel you cannot leap Barreling toward future You're not ready to conceptualize You said You had No doubts And yet my Name's a secret that you keep Asked to see your family And I saw fear within your eyes Keine Lügen liegen in deinen Augen Wir sind die Sonne und die Welt Und ich sehe Wolken am Himmelszelt I'm a professional I could write outside of witching hour And my work would still be seminal Scarce precedent, yet still preeminent I don't need a heartbreak as a catalyst Or for assistance in making the face of woe evident Sigue la verdad, y la rectitud Y fortalece su mentalidad y actitud La manera en que las sigues Es madera de su mente Puede construir Su nave O su ataúd Fie on a letter of recommendation I'm walking the path of my edification Discover me truly through a conversation Uncover me fully by seeing creation What the Spirit has given to me is a compass, not map Redirection may come as a need and surprise But I'm unafraid—be it a mountain or trap Stage at a festival Is a plank and a pedestal I sing and dance on an auction block And a podium When I perform in a stadium Till I'm in the Lord's embrace No move from me will be perfunctory I understand a long life, and a sweet death Are a luxury Rather be misunderstood Upon a rightly-pointed trail Than to be quite understood Upon the wrong path Stood for righteousness And as a consequence travailed Than for nothingness In order to avoid man's wrath I, watered my dreams with brine And sowed my deeds in love and passion My heart's a battle drum Whose beat to which my flesh is marching The step that follows for the sun Does separate the dusk from dawn On your horizon Is star, setting or rising