Throwing Out Guesses

I saw a glimpse so I had to know, in the infinite I swim and flow I had to learn that fast is slow and how to laugh and how to let go Grew up poor so I had to blow, lived in fear so I had to grow I remember our first show in October covered in Colfax snow Cops ripped out my hair to see it I guess you had to read Foucault The social contract beat my ass before I ever even heard of Rousseau My philosophy back then was Biggie, Pac, and Death Row My mind started to expand with Big L, Blackstar, and Pharoahe I was sharpening my sword, I had to pay the toll like Jethro Spitting like Aqualung, with the fire of Locomotive Breath though Traveled the world with only words the beat start and my breath go Walking cocky got knocked off the path I learned how to humbly step slow I learned history from the Cheyenne, Arapaho to the Braceros In school they celebrated settlers, the curriculum was narrow I got scary spaces in my soul, gothic, haunted, art deco I got stars in my bone marrow help me translate poems from sparrows They said fly free with no regrets and never fear the arrow I conversated with a willow it said get rid of those pills though Sirens lure me falsetto my ship hits the rocks the with a death blow I’m out to sea like Prospero, the ocean bed will be my pillow What's death but the final unknown flight of the alone If it doesn't scare you it's not worth doing, hmm that's a poem You call it drowning, I call it underwater learning to breathe I carved gills in my neck and started to study with a reef I’m just a soul plant swaying, won't you water me with dreams? The light dances down here, let’s watch it bend into beams The portals are always present, magic crackles at the edges The universe is always creating, are we one of its sketches? When we make art we help express it, the portals start stretching Finding doors for new dimensions, each song puts a wedge in A real treasure has nothing to do with possessions I never claimed to know the truth I’m just throwing out guesses