i understood the true meaning of contradiction for the first time in church
learning of my love for music but never the message that followed, although we stayed anyway, always long past our welcome
we were walking contraventions like the black boy genius who lived anyway
despite the horror, unable to do well in school because trauma speaks clearly
whispers escaping me, down on two knees
pleading for mercy like the blessings bestowed on those who can afford to eat clean
we spent our summer nights dancing under the stars because the ancestors taught us how to move when the sun goes down
it was only in the comfort of absolute silence that it was revealed that needles created the wounds we had seen on the souls of those who had been left behind
and these scars told of the many nightmares that create headless wolves who still manage to howl at the moon
i understood the true meaning of contradiction for the first time in church
learning of my love for music but never the message that followed, although we stayed anyway, always long past our welcome
we were walking contraventions like the black boy genius who lived anyway
despite the horror, unable to do well in school because trauma speaks clearly
whispers escaping me, down on two knees
pleading for mercy like the blessings bestowed on those who can afford to eat clean
we spent our summer nights dancing under the stars because the ancestors taught us how to move when the sun goes down
it was only in the comfort of absolute silence that it was revealed that needles created the wounds we had seen on the souls of those who had been left behind
and these scars told of the many nightmares that create headless wolves who still manage to howl at the moon