I was a man with no dreams
Just like the new moon
Hidden
Those visions that give you wings
So that you may fly and soar amidst the giants
But my wings grew slow
As did my desire to fly
Growing restless in the valley I called home
My back is starting to itch and my feet won't be still

The stress on my chest
Let's me know I did invest
Something into my heart
Breathing life into this art

Getting use to these sensations
Reverberations of my inner
Bright begins to fill the hole
As I break the mold

From stories that are old
Ingrained and overtold
But the darkness of that night
Adjusted me to the light

For when I hold both
Each in the palm of a hand
All is revealed
The grandest plan...

I would like to say that
I'm writing this to you from a cloud
On which dreams lay
Ready to fall softly into your mind

But other times it's flicked
Like a pebble skipping across the image
Ripples that ruffle smooth feathers
Unsettled and unnerved

Rooting myself in the ground
Trying to live in the round
That circle
That sphere
That vision in which everything is clear

I know of the world
But I do not exist in it
Floating in inky black
Enveloping her edges
Devoid of bright
Darker than night
It was my home
To the ends I roamed
Until into that flight
I found a light
Just right
For me.....

I'm afraid of being sober
I'm afraid of being over
I see the right path
But I give it the cold shoulder

Mama said you doing right
Yet it feels so wrong
I can't speak it in words
But I can spit it in song

From the day the Lord makes me
To the day the Lord takes me
No feat on Earth
Will bend but not break me

So go ahead and forsaken
It will not take me
My hands and my word
I will make thee

True in all forms
Feel the whole planet
I see the cure and curse
Be like "******"

It caught my eye on a slow Tuesday
The leaves falling
like
                                 brown
               rain
   just
                          floating
     gently
                  to
                              the
**cool, damp ground on which everything will come to rest on soon

Intelligent movement for the masses
Gotta reach em now before time passes
No line between the classes
Warfare in the home
No peace in your dome
Wanna build that Rome
In a week
And at the peak
That beacon of hope
Not dope used to cope
Gotta have a firm grip on that slippery *****
Called life and strife
Don't use the knife
To bring on that permanent night
That tunnel of darkness
Home of the demons and heartless

All I did was get high
Then watch the world turn
Baby it's real
I felt my soul burn

Most girls don't want you
To be
They just want you
To try
With every fiber of
Your being

I want the type of fame
That's everlastin'
A dope rhyme
Feel the rhythm and passion

Hey

Do you mind
If I feel you anytime of day
Running on my thoughts
Every kind of way

Please

To inform these people
Let me form the word
Life is more than
The old script and the paper

Solemn and righteous
Alone and wandering
Many are looking
Under earth and up at stars
Ready for that moment
A single moment
In which their life blossoms

Ears
Loud can move a crowd
But whispers move mountains

I feel an energy
I need the synergy
I want the remedy
I heard the melody

Soul vibin
Cold riding
For my people
I can't have an equal

The pressure on my shoulders
Helps me lift boulders
All apart of the plan
Makes me a better man

I use the light to break the curse
Heaven's water quench the thirst
Digging in my mental purse
Searching for my own worth

Don't dare the champion
Energy and function
Noon at the luncheon
Tease me
Only one to ease me
No need to appease me

Humbleness is greatness
Underated and debateless
My master taught me well
In that cell is hell
Laying burdens to your mind
Infected over time
Teach the youth the truth
Yell it every time in the booth

Great minds understand
Only fools see two entities
Overloading to one side
Destined to always shine

Again and again
Neither gaining or losing
Doubt always around

Everyday is a battle
Victory is impossible
Infinite dance
Love is the partner

When they come
Out the sky or inspiration
Rescuing or crushing
Deity or demons
Sum of the 5 or the 6

As the ink stains the page
On this day
I pray that I don't stray
Away to another way
Truth in each and every step I take
Realities I create
Spread love
Watch me demonstrate

Wanna hang in the river
Wash away with the stones
I feel the sensation
Deep in my bones

A slave to the world
Putting hands to the girls
Now I'm thinking payback
Forget a Maybach
Unless you got money
It won't stop the lead
Your ego is the target
These ****** want you dead
With two to the head
From the smoking glock
I guess you didn't observe your time on the clock
You think it'll keep ticking
When it's been born to stop
That's why you need to be hip
But move is the hop
Embrace the 3 and let your form rock

It's all real
It's no spoof
Hence why I call it the truth

I spit heart
I spit mic sound
I'm real deep
I'm profound

Just learn how to get down

I feel the people's life
From the fiber down
I'm going for the crown
Never backing down

India is where it was born
Or was it England?
Probably somewhere in between
When the stern wind blew it in

Pale isn't a proper color
I think more vibrantly
Amber shaded glory
Seen vividly on my tongue

Ale, a old friend
He grew on me
Now we are best friends
Riders to the end

I'm like M.L.K
With the Iron Fists
Willing to battle
Anyone who wants to f* with this

These thoughts
Are real old
They speak the real
Baby your still gold

Those legends
They mean well
I see the rawness
I've seen Hell

So promise me
That your thoughts
Will never slide
I need you here
Right by my side

Can we talk awhile?

Born in darkness
The light scared me
Yet it's born within me

There is something in me
Long forgotten
Yet it pushes and pulls
Always reminding me

This solidarity is coming to an end
I have walked this path enough
For I have found what I seek
Now to open my eyes

But I must warn you
Things won't always be gentle
In order to grow
First you must burn away

Just ask the forest and the land
Just ask the trees that sprouted from the ashes
Just ask your favorite island
They have danced with the fire

As will I
But not to harm or repel
But to warm and inspire
Myself and my space

Empty
An endless void
I feel nothing
I know nothing

Then a luminous omen
Right before the bright bounty pours
Filling and filling
With no brim in sight

Something tethers to me
Another and more
No words are spoken
But it is heard loud and clear

Empty
Yet whole
No need to hold on
When everything is in your grasp

Gripping the clouds
To fly upon their wings
Heaven's delight
Every time it sings

Tell me father
Tell me now
Show me the way
Show me how

To educate
To show them the light
Teach them when to bend
Advise them when to fight

We demand change
While staying the same
Want the power to fight?
Pick a different flame

They always seek out
Relentless in pursuit
Unearth spiritual gold
The masses will follow
Holder of the flame

Harness both sides
Always walking the line
Resting in the process
Much that is lost
Only to return differently
Now you understand
Your part of a great whole

Step
       by
          Step
                 We
                      dig
                          and
                                We
                                    dig
                            down
                    down
            down
            into our own well of despair
Scattered
                                              thoughts
Never
             hold
                       together
                                         long
But somehow
It all comes back
Nice and neat
Tucked in rows
Wrapped in bows
It is a duality
                             Light     Dark
                             Day       Night
                             Love     Fight

         You need to know both halves to enjoy the whole

I practice martial arts
Everyday
The goal is
Never to use it

Mighty soul strength
You would be wise to notice

Holding power in my thoughts
Anyone who is weak
Knows they stand no chance
In time

In time
Surrender your mind

Striking at the core
Turning your world blank
Revealing your true self
Only when you believe in you
Not in the outside
Gaining something much more

I've seen where those images
Take root
Trying to till them
New flowers need to grow

I've felt anger for too long
So I called cousel with the Ancients
Asked them for some help
They taught me the art of patience

Mixed with gravity
Rooted in reality
Changed my mentality
So I won't become another causality

So hear me now
Learn to love each soul so bold
Fill you with the fire
Keep away the inner cold

Threatens to steal your life
Admist all the strife
Please head this warning
Hope to see you in the morning.

Moments that last
Even after your gone
Ringing of the bells
Restless children
Yearning for the day to come

Cracking the horizon
Happiness fills the air
Rampaging feet thumping
In a chaotic mass
Searching for it
THE GIFT
Memories that last
A Merry Christmas
Savor the time

I write this one for you
My little brown Queen
It is for you that I struggle
It is for you that I dream

The coming days are dreary
Night filled with extra dark
So I'll protect you
By putting art in your heart

It'll show you things
Only found in-between
You can see through the lies
The false feelings in their eyes

Truth always changes
Just like the tide
It can take you low
It can lift you high
It will always radiate
Even after you die

Love those who accept blame
Along with the power
The greatest human beings
There in your darkest hour

I want to love my voice y'all
Learn to be me
I can see everything
Except how to be free

In my own skin
Around my own kin
This **** is crazy
One the factors why I don't have a baby

I wanna show them
Real love from the heart
The thing that stays together
When you fall apart

Hold on to it
But learn to let it go
When both can feel right
Then you'll know

Living through your team
You cheer and scream
If they win
If not
The gravest sin
You took my light!
You put me in this night!
And because you caused this strife
I demand payment with your life

Between right and wrong
Left of what's right
Ultimately subjective
Reasons are your own
Reasons are my own
Yet you wonder why we fight

I have felt it
That flow that nature follows
In my feet darken with earth
Upon my hands the wind lays
Through the light that burns my eyes

I have seen it
In actions of man
Instincts of animals
Patterns in the clouds
Within myself

And my lovin
Is grown woman style
Old fashioned

- Ghostface Killah

I feel the pain of today
To see the light of tomorrow
That's why I feel the shine
In the time that borrowed

Yes I know sorrow
Like you learn these lines
If we connect
Then I know your mind

I had forgotten myself
Lost in the stars
Wandering in the spaces of my reality
Feeling connected
Feeling isolated
All in the same inhale
Blended in the exhale
Forging my spirit cost me time
But it has given me forever
Forever me
Forever true
I have woken up to a new view

Pulling the charred earth inward
I reminisce about feeling
Sipping on the forgetful elixir
Trying recreate it in my mind

Am I in her bones?
Does she feel me across her skin?
Would she go blank when she catches my scent?
What is she thinking?

Questions with infinite answers
Endless angles
Countless meanings
A race with no finish line

A path I gladly walk
Why worry about the end
When I can live in love and forever

My hands
My hands are capable
Of anything
I feel them surge

It is fire
That does not burn
But excites
The vision is bright

Using them to expand
Beyond limits of normal man
I seek a new sphere
Conquer the fear

Intelligent reflected
Harmony and Song
I am the balance
Right and the Wrong

Once again we have arrived
This same beautiful moment
Feeling the universe alter in my presence
Allowing me to
Amongst the starry night of my mind
Where new horizons await

I want to be naked and against your skin
Never thought just being touched could do so much
A high no drug can create
Your touch is in my bones
That's why I hurt when you go away
But it's a beautiful pain
Reminding me that this is real
And it's to be appreciated
The moments I roam and caress your curves with my body
That gentle zephyr against my chest when you sleep
But the best thing of all?
Saying I love you and truly meaning it with every fiber of my being
Even if it hurts me
I want you to be the one who does it

Taken for granted the raw planet
Is asking for change
All we need is a target
We're not asking for range

Though it might seem strange
To be one with the rock
But the next day
See me on the dock in the bay

Watching the cloud roll on in
Roll on in
Under cover of their presence
You might learn then

That

My words don't need to climb charts
I don't like those arts
Maybe I miss the feeling
I don't like those hearts

With you glitzy glitzy
And your shiny shine
All I need from mine
Is mouth and mind

So please pardon me
While I step away
Hold on to my soul and throw my rep away