My Testimony

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I survived gunshots, knives
Attempted suicides and death from a seizure before I was five
God got me here for a reason
And even as a youth
My parents said it was apparent I'd be a preacher
But I thank God that I'm a poet
See, I stay devoted
Spoken word for me is more than Sunday mornings, Wednesday nights, poetry slams And open mics
I don't play poet
'cause this gift ain't a game God gave me
He made design each rhyme as if each line is trying to find salvation
So it's safe to say I write the hell out of a poem
Exercising demons just by speaking

See, time ain't something I'm taking for granted so
Every time you see me on a stage I engrave it with the soul of Shug Avery
Maybe God's tryin' to tell me something
Like how the contradiction after the benediction causes conflict
So how can I reach you from a pulpit if you think I'm full of it
That's why that young kid who feels his life ain't worth living
Feels his spirits lifted from the lyrics I give him
Ain't that deliverance?
What's the significance of having a gift if nobody can receive it?
See, I too touch the youth
Just not like Catholic preachers, me? I'm a poet
And I know it don't make me better, poets never ever claim to be
Never said we were better persons, just try to make you better persons through our Verses
And this ain't me versus churches, I just know what my purpose is

See I stare at blank pages, and they look right back at me
Asking me what is it that I have to give
'Cause somewhere some little girl has had her life jaded
By a rapist that her momma made her call daddy and
Had she never heard the poem where I use the the line
Where I say she's somebody sunshine, she'd've stopped tryin'
Another murder or suicide victim prevented by what was written
See I
Write to lighten the loads on their shoulders
Console them and build up pillars of respect
So those columns don't bind and they pick up Virginia techs

Forget poetry, I write lifelines
Rewind time until you find points you're saved
Save your points; find you until time rewinds
Guys, this ain't poetry
These are testimonies
And every cat you hear speaking ain't nothin' more than a deacon
And we didn't come here for some game or some show
And this stopped being a poem about a minute ago

This ain't a poem
These are God's teachings reaching my thinking
Leaking through my inkpen onstage speaking in hopes that I reach them
His people...which people?
Anybody breathing and if your love is as blind as mine
You can see what I'm seeing
So I'ma keep on speaking 'til He say when
The doors of my verses are open, let the church say Amen
The doors of my verses are open, let the church say Amen

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