Chinoiserie 6

Yeah man
I just want to say Thank You GOD,
We're here today
But GOD knows we're not here to stay
Snow storming,
Floods forming,
Global warming
Global strife
Global war's battling for our life
A COVID pandemic
Racism is systemic
Supremacy and hatred are endemic
Blacks hired last,
But fired first
With equal academics,
But it gets worse
How can the under
Become the top dog?
Man, I wonder
How we can survive it all
Can we keep our sons and daughters,
Floating above
Never underwater?
Literally
Cause tides rise
When glaciers fall
One day the Marshall Islands
Will be gone y'all
No Miami,
No NYC
Unless we see
Them from a submarine
Know what I mean?
I said empty your mind
Be formless
Shapeless
Like water
Put water into a cup
It becomes the cup
You put water into a bottle
It becomes the bottle
You put it in a teapot
It becomes the teapot
Now water can flow
Or it can crash
Be water my friend
Who among you can
Say "Blessed is the man"?
That won't dwell in counsel of the infidel
Or stand
In the way of the sinner
Or land
In the seat of the scornful
But can
Delight in,
Drink up and enjoy
What's in the cup
Of the law of the LORD
And in HIS law,
He does meditate
Both in days early
And nights late
To be like a tree
On the riverbank fruitfully
Whatever he does shall prosper
Truthfully
But you'll see
All the ungodly
Will not stand
Hand in hand
With the Body
Because by nature
They are naughty
Lifted up, proud, haughty,
No quality, shoddy
Instead of water
They'll catch wind
And just blow away
And perish.
For the LORD knows the righteous way.
Empty your mind
Be formless
Shapeless
Like water
Now you put water into a cup
It becomes the cup
Put it in a teapot
It becomes the teapot
Water can flow
Or creep or drip or crash
Be water my friend
Now that you are
Vapor like water
My heart's no longer
Ice like water
In fact, it's stronger
That I might ponder
What I said when I called
But I still wonder
When I called you Dad
(I love you too, Dad)
For the first time,
But I had guilt bad,
The first time
Was the last time,
Cause after that,
I meant to
But I never you called back
(Man, I never called you back)
The next call I got
Sis said you died
No water was cried,
Just shock in my eyes
No waterworks
Just questions
Reflections
In a fog,
In a haze
For days
No direction
I called my Mom and Stepdad
For correction
Asking why
I couldn't cry
No expression
Here's the lesson,
You can't pour water out of an empty vessel!
Mortar and pestle,
With that I wrestle.
I said empty your mind
Be formless
Shapeless
Like water
Put water into a cup
It becomes the cup
You put water into a bottle
It becomes the bottle
You put it in a teapot
It becomes the teapot
Now water can flow
Or it can crash
Be water my friend