Take Heed

Another baby born, another stolen life,

To claim the day as yours, to see through open eyes,

He say he know the truth, I know who told him lies,

The tree with deepest roots, when lightning struck it died,

How can I be of use?

My limit is the totem size,

in the event of your demise we cried and kept it pushing,

it’s peaks and valleys, the totality I’m overlooking,

that **** did his dirt in secret I’ll let karma whoop him,

Where it took him ain’t no secret It’s an art to being decent,

nothing partial when it’s even,

oddly oughta find a reason, say…

the odyssey is sleepless, safe, too many are in need of Sage,

it’s hard it ain’t no easy way to god, who doesn’t need a face,

I remember bleeding, I.. I remember seeing things,

I’m forever singing praises, journeyed through too many facets,

many phases… done worn too many faces,

too many masks, too many men with lack of demonstration,

let the past inform the present, like the future ancient,

was led astray, he disobeyed then put in place a sanction,

full of joy and full of rage and simultaneously thankless,

he never knew his feelings spoke a language,

I saw 90 like an angle,

Alternating universe at 5 I saw an angel,

Playing bata for Orisha at the toque with the Kangol,

that’s how I see my father through the lens I choose to paint through,

Water at my ankles,

And grief at my achilles,

Nowadays I choose to thank you,

‘Cause voids need filling,

Healing and hurting,

On the surface are the same thing,

Blame is for a person,

And learning is the great deed,

take heed