I can’t freestyle, my tongue is heavy.

I have written for the likes and I have written when I hated myself.

I called an ambulance on myself and poetry is the surgery that keeps saving me.

I have left earth every time I have performed, proof that I cannot always be grounded.

I’m not the reason why my mother is a grandmother,

I’m the man who breaks chances by their spine until they can’t take me anywhere.

I know more about vapor than just the science taught to me in school,

I have taken friendships to a boiling point and watched them evaporate..

To a sky, that has witnessed what I have seen.

I have seen people with hands that couldn’t stop shaking,

I have heard the noises of swallowed voices seeking an uprising.

That’s why I don’t freestyle, my voice is not light,

It is weighty.

I can’t freestyle, my tongue is heavy.