Phoenix

I have sunken into the abyss of human validation And you have fallen into a dungeon on your way to self-restoration Buried deep underneath the rubble I lay And you, consumed by the inferno You burn But let me ask you this What do you know about the birds More specifically, what do you know about the Phoenix Cause everywhere I turn to are men of ill-intent And we're the ones they burn through to make it to their end We give every part of us Our blood, our sweat, and our tears But trust these capitalists To make Pounds and Pence off our fears But I should ask you this What do you know about the Phoenix See, every step taken is towards the gravest of yards And we don't deserve it when they call us the bravest of hearts Cause pain makes or breaks But in most cases, it shatters into pieces every weak link So we had to toughen up Still I ask you this What do you know about the phoenix It's like we are connected by the same vessel By the virtue of the struggle, we all bleed the same I am feeling your heartbeat across the Atlantic As you're feeling Vannessa's over the Mediterranean This is a network of the common man Bound by the same seemingly impossible mission Of breaking free from the piercing clutch Of the oppressors of our souls And I don't mean it poetically when I say, "We are everybody and nobody" "Everywhere and nowhere" "Everything and absolutely nothing" This is Mama Africa's invisible umbilical Connecting babies from Kathmandu to Caracas In unison, we possess the ruggedness of Nigerian soldiers The wisdom of King Solomon And the beauty of a golden pheasant This is the moment we rise From the ashes of our predecessors From the hell hole of their negligences Don't sell me pacifism I want the sword and the dichotomy it represents Cause violence begets violence And cowardice doesn't win wars So leave me and let me burn to the ground Cause only then… Then and only then do I come alive What do you know about the Phoenix