My newest piece written for spoken word.
Lets step back into the past
And how I seemed to grow up all so fast
My first rhymes, where these lines
“What is that smell, is it the ones we missed
The ones lost to hell?”
I Scratched them into my walls, like colors through and through
They were the words of the called, by God the One True
So now I aim to paint with words, your mind would be canvas
and I’m hoping your soul would buy this
because the bliss of it all was simplest
I had words, and those words they had me
But step into the future, I was blind and couldn’t see
I started off with a purpose
And now this distance
Has made me lose focus
as if that wasn’t bad enough know this
That I STARTED THIS to reach the lost
And now I am selling my talent for a cost
No BETTER THAN A WHORE who sold her soul
And I play my part like a damned fool
So let’s set aside the trends
Forget these means to an end
Because the boy who wanted to move mountains with words
Has sacrificed it so that he can be more easily heard
The easy path. The one of least resistance
WHAT ABOUT PERSISTENCE
FIGHTING, STRIVING, PURSUING YOUR CALL
Why would you ever consider to let yourself down and fall
“GET UP, STOP! DON’T DO IT! It’s hard and I just can’t do it anymore”
Now you listen to me, you were born to be a champion Pick yourself off the floor
More than conquerors! Undefeated
Victorious! To be seated near where the kings feet is!
Not in chairs of gold but on our knees, Because that’s where the victory is see?
So let me ask you, how much do you belong to
The one you CLAIM you love and serve!?
What is it that you deserved!?
WHY have you forsaken your call
And sacrificed what’s most precious of all!?
I stand in the mirror disgusted, because I see me and not YOU!
I need you to replace me, with your spirit and make me New
Because this carcass. This ripped shell has taken all it can
Now Lord I’m tired of being the same old man
I want to give you all that I am but I don’t know how
I’m desperate for you to change me now
I just want to be made new
Lord Please. Replace me with You.
“Trends”
I stand and stare, into the mirror
Nor out of desperation or fear
But in midst of me drawing near
But not from here to there
But within the depths of this stare
I stand amidst the foggy glass fully aware
Of my current crisis of this brokenness
Between the staging floor and the ceilings stares
I stand truly disgusted with myself greatly.
This passion burdening me heavily
As I stare myself into the eyes I don’t cry or sigh
But I contemplate to myself, what it means to die
To sacrifice the depths of my life
Not to a knife or some kind of pointless strife
To be set apart to a concept, turn over that proverbial new leaf
To stand TRUE to my convictions and beliefs
To an ideal, of something not of myself but of something known
Whether it be from a low blow, or some form of unknown flow
I wish to stand to stand in the gaps of my lost fellows.
Inside my head I hear the jarring phrase
Of which ever increasingly the hammer raised
Slams down into my mind
To only find the question that binds
To my conscious thought process
That attains my utter true and complete focus
That question that rings loudly behind
The doors of my mind.
That screams, relentlessly unendingly
To potentially the depths of my soul
To face me, my greatest foe
It rings out, “How much do you belong to this God
That you claim that you love and serve”
How it struck me, how wrongly have I trod
and how desperately hellfire I deserve.
Take it back in the day
When I was a kid and would say
“I LOVE JESUS” claiming to be a sponge
Before the dirt and the grunge
Before I gave myself to a genre that was unforgiving
Replacing a savior so willing to pardon my striving
That’s more than willing to not let me live alone
More than willing to let His blood, my sin atone
Take me back way back when I wanted to go to Bible school
And the ministers on the stage were the ones that were cool
When I saw the blind eyes that were opened
And the widow that seemed hopeless still hopin’
TAKE ME BACK to those days
When I would say
“Lord use me! Whatever it may be!
USE ME! To set the Captives free!”
I stand and stare, into the mirror
Nor out of desperation or fear
But in midst of me drawing near
But not from here to there
But within the depths of this stare
I stand amidst the foggy glass fully aware
Of my current crisis of this brokenness
Between the staging floor and the ceilings stares
I stand truly disgusted with myself greatly.
This passion burdening me heavily
As I stare myself into the eyes I don’t cry or sigh
But I contemplate to myself, what it means to die
To sacrifice the depths of my life
Not to a knife or some kind of pointless strife
To be set apart to a concept, turn over that proverbial new leaf
To stand TRUE to my convictions and beliefs
To an ideal, of something not of myself but of something known
Whether it be from a low blow, or some form of unknown flow
I wish to stand to stand in the gaps of my lost fellows.
Inside my head I hear the jarring phrase
Of which ever increasingly the hammer raised
Slams down into my mind
To only find the question that binds
To my conscious thought process
That attains my utter true and complete focus
That question that rings loudly behind
The doors of my mind.
That screams, relentlessly unendingly
To potentially the depths of my soul
To face me, my greatest foe
It rings out, “How much do you belong to this God
That you claim that you love and serve”
How it struck me, how wrongly have I trod
and how desperately hellfire I deserve.
Take it back in the day
When I was a kid and would say
“I LOVE JESUS” claiming to be a sponge
Before the dirt and the grunge
Before I gave myself to a genre that was unforgiving
Replacing a savior so willing to pardon my striving
That’s more than willing to not let me live alone
More than willing to let His blood, my sin atone
Take me back way back when I wanted to go to Bible school
And the ministers on the stage were the ones that were cool
When I saw the blind eyes that were opened
And the widow that seemed hopeless still hopin’
TAKE ME BACK to those days
When I would say
“Lord use me! Whatever it may be!
USE ME! To set the Captives free!”
Lets step back into the past
And how I seemed to grow up all so fast
My first rhymes, where these lines
“What is that smell, is it the ones we missed
The ones lost to hell?”
I Scratched them into my walls, like colors through and through
They were the words of the called, by God the One True
So now I aim to paint with words, your mind would be canvas
and I’m hoping your soul would buy this
because the bliss of it all was simplest
I had words, and those words they had me
But step into the future, I was blind and couldn’t see
I started off with a purpose
And now this distance
Has made me lose focus
as if that wasn’t bad enough know this
That I STARTED THIS to reach the lost
And now I am selling my talent for a cost
No BETTER THAN A WHORE who sold her soul
And I play my part like a damned fool
So let’s set aside the trends
Forget these means to an end
Because the boy who wanted to move mountains with words
Has sacrificed it so that he can be more easily heard
The easy path. The one of least resistance
WHAT ABOUT PERSISTENCE
FIGHTING, STRIVING, PURSUING YOUR CALL
Why would you ever consider to let yourself down and fall
“GET UP, STOP! DON’T DO IT! It’s hard and I just can’t do it anymore”
Now you listen to me, you were born to be a champion Pick yourself off the floor
More than conquerors! Undefeated
Victorious! To be seated near where the kings feet is!
Not in chairs of gold but on our knees, Because that’s where the victory is see?
So let me ask you, how much do you belong to
The one you CLAIM you love and serve!?
What is it that you deserved!?
WHY have you forsaken your call
And sacrificed what’s most precious of all!?
I stand in the mirror disgusted, because I see me and not YOU!
I need you to replace me, with your spirit and make me New
Because this carcass. This ripped shell has taken all it can
Now Lord I’m tired of being the same old man
I want to give you all that I am but I don’t know how
I’m desperate for you to change me now
I just want to be made new
Lord Please. Replace me with You.
