Playing with the Paint Bowl
I imagine myself cultivated in the mind of blind guru
Where color doesn't matter, where I can seek the truth
Where new testaments are created and the Jehovah’s undermine the statement that a “nigga” like me doesn't have a chance at life before God takes it
That my vernacular is too straight to be a part of a race, that embodies William Lynch’s words: The Making of a Slave
But my memory is hazed, still thinking that were chained because I am too black to have the ability to see there will be daylight again
Perspicacious to the fact I will see a Trayvon again
And all you Sanctimonious people can find another Individual to place your labels on again
Because I’m too complex, paying homage to those of Jane Pittman a fictional identity realistic to the 119 year old that embodies the soul of our country…….
Like the ocean, and the seas, the birds and the trees we adapt to the environment we see
But I’ll flee thinking why me focusing on e-harmony where’s the love trynna harmonizing the world around we
Being on bended knee asking another brother to accept me it’s a shame these colors complexes got my sister thinking she above me
But I say fuck it Malcolm and King were both wrong in ever thinking we were gonna make it as one
The war just begun and straddling my thumb I seek to end ignorance life as he separates my world of fun
As he separates mother and son, as father was never really in “our” picture so his battle is won
So I challenge us leave behind the piss in hallways, rioting off verdicts, recycling our known ways
To not be encaged by the system refusing to play the right game and understand the spectrum of America’s facade in order to survive the paint bowl maze