Charms

Tumble out the ether, my blank verse
 Wild jungle out the speaker, rare earths
 Every rebbe wonder, will his golem work?
 Every golem wonder if they was the first
 Lurch, cursed
 Shots was close together like the gun burst
 Optimistic as a prostitute's wishlist
 Kids are alright, what he told the missus
 Baby in the reeds, keep him from the 'gyptians
 If she never has a seed, they gon' be s'picious
 Rumours, wishes, bad blow pursed lip rape kisses
 Turn and spit, note the sun distance
 Won't be long now, if they comin' come get it
 If you comin' come get it
 Eve had a sister, who knows what he did with her
 Big picture, frame was five figures
 Soul suspended in silver, invoice A. Richter
 Ay, Nigga
 I was given this world, I didn't make it
 This a crazy place
 Babyface with the shiner to match the charm bracelet
 Pacin', upstate bus station
 Baby fat, but the babies the wolves take him
 I'm not the first to believe in this hypocrisy
 Circles lined with stones of a questionable origin
 Wanted affirmations over harvested smudge stick fragrances
 Instruments of faith, seekin' silence and comfort
 Delusional hunter on a path toward agency
 Bunkered, hella unwavering
 Takin' to the skies, celestial bodies that the wise men follow
 Stopped makin' sense when chaos rang hollow
 Imagination lack work, prosperity model
 Out of mystery, a divine spark
 Some are drawn, some are marked
 Stark phenomenon, faith starts when shit stops addin' up
 Charge it to the game, plus tax just when you had enough
 In this body, spirit mover, clear the passage
 Why be shackled by the past tense
 Dry bones of the Nag Hammadi
 From the dust, reanimated and birthed anew
 From the rib, there were two
 We speak abundance, seekin' oneness
 I have to tell you guys, I need to
 To perhaps talk a little more about survival.
 Because, when I say that, I have heard people say,
 "Oh, but I'm not content to survive."
 Because and implicit in that response
 Is a certain denigration of what survival is.
 That is to say, they reduce survival to a mere existence
 And that is not survival
 None of us are going to move the Earth one millimeter from its axis
 But, if we do what we need to be doing,
 Then we will leave something that continues beyond ourselves
 And that is survival