(Wake up!)

l stop dreamin when they tell me I’m woke. 
When I’m rapping in my car, they tell me I’m dope. 
They help me to cope. Back when like my whole heart broke. 
They say you understand my pain but yo hope y’all don’t. 
Being grown being gone being on another planet. 
Being Joseph and Jason and Damascus Dammit. 
Every voice is an Angel or an angle of a facet 
Of the diamond that this life is. Happiness is priceless. 
When your ex got mad and kept asking where her knife is. 
Now, I fuckin question everybody’s niceness. 
I roll a loosey to help relieve the tightness. 
I sit and listen to the voices talkin like this. 
They tell me to speak with power and politeness. 
They tell me I should not be turning down my brightness.
Basic physics and how lyrical light shifts.  
They tell us how to find peace in a crisis.
 
We all have abandonment issues.
If you was half as sad as me I couldn’t stand to be with you. 
But love is official. 
Your situation’s the product of choices 
This is where we find our voices. 
We all have abandonment issues.
If you was half as bad as me I couldn’t stand to be with you. 
Loved ones are with you.
Your situation’s the product of choices 
This is where we find our voices. 

I start writing when I feel like a joke.
When I’m finna quit my job, poetry gimme hope. 
It tells me “Do the right thing.” Like, King. 
Give in to desire and the fire light brings. 
See the meaning of success is get to the next step  
With just enough left to share and invest. Bless.
“Don’t even sweat that shit tho. 
Don’t panic at the disco. Slide like crisco.” 
Not before you spit that gift tho. For kinfolk. 
Can it be that it was all so simple? We been dope. 
Somebody said it was sinful at the intro 
Really, it was human. Who the hell are you foolin?” 
Who the hell are you talkin to? I’m thinking out loud. 
Listen and let it go. Let it hit you like edibles. 
Leveling up the love. Without it you’ll never know. 
Knowledge is infinite cuz the voices tell me so.

We all have abandonment issues.
If you was half as mad as me I couldn’t stand to be with you. 
But love is official. 
Your situation’s the product of choices 
This is where we find our voices. 
We all have abandonment issues.
If you was half as nice as me I couldn’t stand to be with you. 
Love is official. 
Your situation’s the product of choices 
This is where we find our find our find our …. voices.