Sleeping Army

What is the truth?
Ask a youth
Would they even have an answer for you?
Would they believe you if you said
that with the right thoughts inside their heads
they could change the world?
That their lives will bring change
in one of two ways:
raise society from it's shit
or help it stay the same
Would they say, "Who are you talking to?"
and leave and label you insane?
Say your brain is whacked out and you loose screws
but wait and think
has anyone ever said that to you?
Maybe yes, you have
and that makes me glad
But the truth is we fail to realize the sleeping army that the youth is
So why do we censor
and why do we lie?
Keep the matches stowed away so the fire inside them dies?
What if they grabbed a hold of life
gave a damn and wanted to fight?
See a broken world and love it up with every ounce of their might?
Take the blinders out their sight
and not have them be surprised
that the same damn people continue to prosper while all the others meet their demise
Let's talk real and let the troops out their cage
so they're no longer slaves to drugs, sex and video games
Stand up and put trust in a younger heart
we must
realize that to prevail
we gotta act on the power inside ourselves
that we all got youth inside of us
waiting to rise up from the dust
shake ourselves awake
so a new world we can make
Reveal the truth
Love each other and the earth
so a better life for all humanity
will be the only thing that comes first

Go Spel

There's a word I turned upside down
I
Made it smile I made it frown
Bent it down ways, up ways
forwards, backwards and sideways
shook it more than a man can shake a shake weight
but I didn't know that what I needed to do
was break it apart a little bit
let it get to my heart a little bit
so it could start making sense with everything stirring in my heart it's:

Gospel
G-O

Go

S-P-E-L
Spell

G-O
Go
Spell it out
with whatever you have
dropping anything you have in your hands to carry
because God G-O-D has plans
just ask Tomato Bob and Cucumber Larry
let it get all stuck in your teeth like corn on the cob
Gospel
Gospel
G-O GO!

GO TELL
Go spell
L-O-V-E
in only ways that God can L-E-A-D
B-E the things you'd never thought you could
Speak the words you never dreamed you would
See the people change their ways like winter's snow up in North L.A.

Go tell the people stuck in the hands of Satan that

Instead of throwin their children in the fire

that they can just sacrifice their own desires

G-O S-P-E-L
Spell it out
Like the sidewalk is your chalkboard
your feet moving light across dark
Spelling it out for the world to see
So next time you hear the word Gospel
Spell it out and follow
G-O
Imma go
like a college grad with their B.A. in Education
Teach the world that there's a new kinda nation in the makin'
and imma rise up and proclaim what's mine
cuz if Thine is the kingdom, power and glory
then all I gotta do is set out towards what's before me
spellin' out the story of forever
never letting up cuz everyone's meant to read this love letter

Sharin the Gospel aint nothin more than
G-O ing to
S-P-E-L it out
turing compassion into action but still not being afraid to shout
Gospel
think about it
Gospel
it's the Good News use it to the world's avail
knowing we got a God who uses our cuts and bruises and failures
to glory a Kingdom assured
Gospel
G-O-S-P-E-L
the word speaks for itself

Thank You for the Moon

Out of all the billions of stars
you made one moon
and for that, God, I thank you
cuz I can come to the end of my day
with the tired look I have in my eyes
and write a hello into it's craters
so when they search the sky
their eyes can meet where mine have been
and we'd have been together

even if it's just in
the moonshine

Too Many Words

There's too many words in my head
most of the time
I can't tell which ones should and should not be said
As soon as I feel I got a handle on it
like I finally know what to do in order not to screw with you anymore
I blow it
We both
know it
It takes me only seconds to realize I should have kept my mouth shut and those words inside
put my knowledge aside
and trust only His
TRUST only His
I think that's what the problem is
I lack the surrender and trust I must have so I'm not back here
eight nine ten times a year
kicking my own ass about what appeared to be the right thing to do
but wasn't
I speak too many words
lacking the action to back up what I really know inside:
I love you
In the end, that's the message I'm ultimately trying to send
but it gets bent outta shape when I try to do it
by myself
I can't do SHIT
by myself
It don't help no one EVER
Never have I genuinely stepped in and helped someone without Jesus
I get it now
And I can tell you imma do my best to not mess up again as your friend
all the words I have for you now
are I'm Sorry.

Call It What You Want

I wish
I wish that this time around I could remember what to do
I wish there was some answer somewhere I left it but forgot
like maybe the back of my freezer
shake it off, microwave it and begin cooking again
Begin eating
living again

But I'm sick of my freezer
the ice burns my skin
I need something real to meet me
Something
SomeOne
to reach me

Only thing is, I'm to scared to look it in the eye
cuz tell me why
Why should I try if imma mess up?
Why should I be like a dog that eats, throws up, then goes back to that same food
to do what it did in the first place that leads to the same result?
No way I'm over it
I'm over hope that makes me feel like I can do better
and be better one day
when nothing ever seems to happen that way
I don't know how to never look back
I don't know what it is to lack nothing and be completely broken
and complete
at the same time
I can't bring myself to just try
cuz this spin cycle is stuck on repeat
I'm washing away

So unless you got something new
up your invisible sleeves that I could never see
but acted like I could cuz you were someone personable to me
I don't know how to move again

I don't want to move again
unless there's actual hope
that I'll never have to be here ever again

We Are Sisters

We are Sisters
Sisters of Truth
Sisters of Light
Sisters of Wisdom
of Love
Life
and Brokenness

We are Sisters
Sisters with soul
Sisters with style
Sisters with strength
bonded in not only our triumphs
but our weaknesses

We are Sisters

Which is why
I can't stand by as I watch you hit the scene
I won't have it when some guy
our Brother
uses his eyes to caress your body like you're another
piece of meat

Cuz you are a Sister
my Sister
and also his
him not seeing, respecting and honoring that
cannot be the way it is
when charisma lures in
giving Satan another chance
to make you feel like he wins

I won't have it where you feel like you have to begin again
but I know I been there
staring the end in the face and having to pick up the pace one more time
but if it comes to that, I'm fine
as long as you let me imma be here by your side
flying or fallen
limping or leaping
crying or seeking
praising or screaming

I claim you as my blood
because we are
we are under
the same blood
and someone told me
that blood is thicker than water

So no, I ain't gonna pull you aside
every time you decide you wanna try something
but if I even hint Satan knocking on the door
imma hit the floor
and fight for you
balled fists becoming clasped hands
raging lips propelling my petition forward
more toward Heaven
words so Spirit heavy they
hit the Gates harder and harder
and harder and harder
till my Daddy understands that I won't let my Sister be lost to any plans but His
and he answers me
cuz that's our Daddy, He hears and answers me
and I won't stand till it happens

cuz you're worth it, just like I am
and I ain't ever gonna throw my hands up at you
imma keep um right at my side
offering one out to you always
letting you know
showing you
that I will never cease to believe
Eternity belongs to us

You
and me
Sisters of Eternity
a Family of Forever
a Unity of The Kingdom that is not just near but here now
and most certainly
The Body of Christ

This is the edict of our identity
We are Sisters
of Love
Light
Life
Truth
Brokenness
I'm
owning this
till we never die

We're Sisters

Let's ride

Who Gon' Pray?

Eh
Who gon pray?

Oh nah, try give um someone else
I no can pray nice kine lidat
You
You get um down
can say what you feeling
what you tinking
all tell um with everybody

But I no can
mine no sound nice
Nah, I still do um
I still pray when I stay by myself
inside kine
but I no like in front everybody
Shame bu
gotta be someone who knows how fo' do dat kine
somebody
pastor
leader
one of da coaches, ah?
Not jus me
I not anybody

I know Jesus no judge me
but still yet get the people
the people not Jesus
I no know what they gon think
what if my words come all jam up?
bumbai they gon think I no can

so yeah, take um
you go pray
yeah! going going going
you get um, sistah

"Let's all come to Jesus in prayer--"