Can you be Motivated by Awe?

Looking on the outside in
I can’t help but say I’d ask
Who is that?
I’m in that Who’s Who game
And I’m not even in the book
I don’t have to fill out the application
Cuz folk always seem to wonder about me
And I don’t need for someone to know me
My actions make people want to know about me
Who is that?
She comes off so easy
She’s so naturally sweet
Maybe it’s the country charm
But she has that Black Woman bite
That often effects like a black widow’s poison

But I’m just me
I’m not trying to impress yall at all
I’m just talking to you like we’re old friends
Like how I reach Star status and not even know it
How I’m still living and they call me a legend
How I’m only 25 and I’m wise beyond years
How I get an ovation and I never stood up
I’m no longer fine and okay nor am I just making it
I’m looking back and now it’s I’m amazingly favored
Cuz I was a legend at birth when I could breath
And a cord was wrapped around my neck
I was a legend at 5 when I could for tell the future
And spirits sat around me while I slept then talked to me in my dreams
I was a legend at 7 when I was forced to play piano
And I personified my personal creation of the art
And practice to me was careless folly
I was a legend at 11 when I had a reading addiction
And I read over 400 books in less than a year
I was a legend at 13 when I became published
And wrote and directed my own sitcom,
Got my first short story published,
Did spoken word on a stage in front of hundreds
And started televised public speaking on a daily basis
Fast forward through high school cause I got too much legend shit
That marvels its own page
Even at 21 I was a legend cause it took me 3 years to get an engineering degree
Then I turned around got accepted into law school twice and turned both Deans down and please believe I never paid a dime for an education
I stay looking for free Government money
Trying to keep my forced tax dollars coming back to me
Life ain’t for the fainthearted
Life is for the courageous
So I know courage is somewhere in your spirit
Cause God wouldn’t have put you here for empty space
that’s why we got nitrogen and oxygen
So stop with the pusillanimous actions
And keep your whining to a silence if you not going to change
Go gain a state of humble temerity
You the only one keeping your ass down
And yeah I just turned vulgar and apolitical
But folk these days can’t understand real shit
They only get real shit said in a real shitty way
So here it is
Folk living like they gotta be hand fed
And that shit just keeps us all starving
Go out and hunt your own damn prize
Fuck what I’ve done
Cuz I’ve never had a long focus
Everything I did don’t mean shit if it can’t help save the world
If it can’t make you think and see beyond physical vision,
Then I can’t get down with the movement
My legendary acts are awe situations
Nothing more, nothing less
Just use them to give you some perspective
These are the stories I tell,
Others tell even more about me
Cuz it’s what inspired them
Stories of my feats that move d them from inspiration to operation
I’m only 25 and I am more than phenomenon
I am an ineffable form that genius can’t describe.


Paradigm of Parodies: Paradise, Peril, and Peace by ACE Jaunty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.