ROOTS

Down in the jungle
The city rumbles
The critics’ fumble
Not over looks but the crooks behind the city’s downfall
Cats running faster than laughter can catch up with the hunger

A state of mind or a mind at stake that you’re chasing after?

 

I’m not a rapper I’m crafting what labels can define
Calico skirts and shawls
Blood right beneath my eyes
Cherokee and American
Some call it black and white
Three sisters eating and praying your cries are heard on high 

 

If any word or a term here seems to slip your mind
Don’t rest in ignorance hold me down asking what and why
I know the drums are a steady home need them  to survive 

My answer anytime I’m questioning why I’m alive

I’m two minds deep when you talk to me 

And no one ever really seems to notice me

 It’s hard cause I know the veil is all you see it's all you see

I use love as a weapon
I take trust like a sedative
Open up, then regret it
The sweeter facade, the blacker the berry

I walk on earth so I’m always supported

 She always feeds me and needs me
I'm always the daughter never an orphan

I think they see me and deem me as just more of a token

Then wipe their tears with the residue of schema distortions

 

I had a dream that the world was united

I had a dream that the jungle prevailed when we loved it more than ourselves
I had a dream that we lived with the lions

 And before they tore us to pieces we showed them what peace could mean so 

 

We were born and adjusted our iris
Where no color was hard to digest  humans started to die less

We built kingdoms with help from the angels 

Granted wings just for  perspective of it all 

And  whenever we flew too close to the sun 

Our roots would hold us down

I’m two minds deep when you talk to me

And no one ever really seems to notice me

It’s hard cause I know the veil is all you see it's all you see

I use love as a weapon
I take trust like a sedative
Open up, then regret it
The sweeter facade, the blacker the berry

 

If nobody breaks my
If nobody breaks my fall tonight 

I'm gonna catch my heart
If it's only me myself and God

If nobody breaks my
If nobody breaks my fall tonight 

I'm gonna catch my heart
If it's only me myself and God