Dreamer jewel

I be standing w/Lucifer at yr door

Shadowed metaphors

Left open the gates

U selected yr tools

I beheaded yr efforts

Left you bleeding before my feet

Unable to cry out in defeat

Cherubic tantrums

Our symposium was not about u

I drop verse

Unrehearse

Splash words on paper

I am the image maker

Flowing free

My mouth a sea of funky vocabulary

Syntax

Grammatical relapse

Downloading explosive lyrical sensation

U can't be me

I never wanted or needed to be u

Stuck dreaming

Stifled by tobacco boys

Isolated from my big city blues

While I sling slang w/jazz gurus

U wanna be Brooklyn gurly

What ya know about them

Absolutely nothang

I was planted in the earth of urban blight

That's all I know is how to deal

Stealing respect from the everyday

I sleep w/men u dare to dream about

I walk w/ Gods u dare to pray to

I sit in Soho lofts off Crosby w/Duncan & Moses

I sit in Zora's memory

At the Schomburg u will find me

Beneath skeletons of Harlem Prophets

That beat rituals into the foyer of my soul

U can't represent

Feeling all bent

U already spent to many verses on me

So what u gonna do?

Sail down the waters w/correct English

Derive some synonyms

Adjectiives out the thesaurus

I'll be ebonic

I'll be ghetto

All over u

Write as I please

Forcing u to yr knees

Take heed I flowed long w/ Thoreau

Had Hemimgway for a day

I am the Queen who traveled to drink out of a desert hole

Jah gave me water

So u can continue to dream jewel

Stare at the stars

Cry at the moon

And I will keep all the ballers in pool pockets

Urban days ferment in yr sockets

At night when u think of me

Dare to stare at what I can bare

On lyrics

On rhyme

Conga lullabies

Sepia Queens

Nubian Kings

And all those things u thought u knew

I will give u Rasta blue

He will play our song for u

We are the rhythmic riders whose haloes were stolen long ago by Lucifer


Lepadah