The Phoenix

[Verse]

To live and die and rise again, the phoenix mitosis

The way I split myself in two, the water moving Moses

My needs and what I wanted was a life I wasn't promised

I was hopeless and made the most of something called growth

This life is all open

The cold wind was bone-chilling, frozen in the moment

Amen, the omen

Then met me at the intersection, lesions on the low end

The sacred height to lean into, we went the distance

When I couldn't speak a word, spirit told me write a sentence

My senses were all shot, my alternate dimension

Past, present, future, tripping, plaguing my ascension

The tension was pressure, finna pop in all direction

Ain't know shadow without light, not the dark, I'm reinvented

My pops say I'm a nine of clubs, completion is progression

Embarking on journeys taught me I'm worthy of affection

Will all of my worries leave me? I'm fiending for connection

I'm on my way to thirty like I'm certainly protected

Meet me at the nexus

Tomorrow isn't promised, but I'm sure this next step is

Blessings and failure mean you're learning life lessons, it's precious

Takes time, cleaning up the messes

The message for you and the messenger whoever

Complexity rebuked, I'll take the easy route to Heaven

Got a pot of stone soup on the fire for my bredren

My life forever changed in 2002

I lost my brother, but I'm grateful to have found a few

And hurt people do recover if they face the truth

What's the root? From there, I blossom to awake anew

I grew up in a cramped environment but learned to love

The women in my life, it's like I only known the hurt and hug

For every time that I caught fire and my father saw me burning up

And situation's dire, I prefer to run further from it

When I was farthest from myself, I ain't deserve to plummet

Now I sit with feelings felt, I don't revert to numbin'

Be conscious of what you give, be careful what you summon

Bred in mama ribs, I heard the universe hummin'

The spirits spoke a name, Sage

Didn't know it was my own 'til I became it

Rainin', pourin', Atreyu in the Orin

The never-ending story of the sword and the soaring

[Outro]

Spent too much of my lifetime warring

Put the sword down and the shield

I'm here now, it's time to heal