I've got coconut oil on my face Sometimes its easiest To start by stating the obvious You sent me some sweet tulips That were fresh from the garden Picked apart by decipherable content If I tried to comb your hair I'd tend to each knot.
We kick up the dust with our heels In this nation we so seek to change But we are careful and clever With our rock steady gaze I compared us to oceans What seems like the other day But really was just the night I almost knocked you down with The door that no longer swung On its hinges or buzzed As an element of the pavement.
That door, I seem to be holding within My soul my ever whisper I could wake up next to you In your black bed See how the shadows hit you so eloquently My lips not kissing yours For fear of a surrender that might Cover us all up in pitiful red damage So I hug and give love Because I do, love you.
I thought this looked like the inside of your head For a moment there I thought we might develop in time That you might wake up one day And just choose me But as time echoes and creeks We both look away from the news in unison You make the raps I'll capture it with my eyes.
And thats whats here Thats whats at stake You looked so beautiful Lights exploding behind you I voice recorded so much Because if I could I would bury it all in a hand basket Trying to capture and save the rawness That we see through our binoculars.
I'm sorry that a gloom surrounds you I see it cough up venom With nimble hands I fight it off for us But we are no us As you entangle us with words and love I always wanted you to write about me.
I didn't mean to leave to hurt you Its just what I do. For now.
Whiskey faded me all day Still feeling like a bucket of possibility You are at your best when covered In splatter paint.
I looked my DNA back up tonight I spit in a tube because I wanted answers I discovered a message from a man named Eugene Jackson Our trees align He's a strong black man.
I don't know what I'm made up of As folk deny we're all interconnected All breathing one vivid breath We shiver and we quiver 'Cuz you know what we gotta do.