Verse Away From God

Sittin' in the silence,

time tiptoes past me I'm countin' lost seconds like sins in a

taxi Each one paid for,

but never gets you backseat,

Feelin' like a prophet that the mirror walkin' past me.

I lived 33 years,

still a stranger to my spirit,

Talkin' to myself in poems,

hopin' God hear it.

If life a test,

I'm scribblin' in margins with no rubric,

Tryna fit divine in the outline of a blueprint.

Is this world real,

or just satire in motion?

A meme of a dream with emotions as the ocean

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You drown in what you feel,

but they laugh at your devotion,

So I bottle up the storm and serve verses as a potion.

They say, "You the player,

the play, and the stage," But what if I'm just a shadow

in the book with no page?

Tryna build a temple in a world built to cage,

Feelin' close to the truth,

but it's just outta range.

You ever look at the stars 'til your thoughts get dizzy?

Like - how the hell I'm small and still carry somethin' heavy

Born of that dust,

but my dreams too heady,

I'm a verse away from God,

but my soul ain't ready.

I'm part of the energy,

but can't find the adapter,

Meditate, medicate - still no chapter.

Writing like the last breath inside of this wrapper,

Each bar a confession that the system ain't capture.

And yeah, I feel anxious - but pain be the muse,

Ink in my veins,

I bleed truth when I bruise.

They say clarity comes when you got nothin' to

lose So I write like a man that done paid all his

dues.