Stop Using This Show as a Character Reference

Tonight is not a coronation. If something in this hour feels high, that height is not mine alone. You only recognize what you already carry. That is why you heard it. Recognition is not worship. Recognition is remembrance. Same law in reverse. The crack you hate in yourself is in this mouth too. You do not find greatness on a man. You find that you could hear it. Hearing is the evidence. Kneeling is the delay. This is the university of the Self. Everybody enrolled. Some hold the chalk. The ones worth the chalk still take notes. The cost is not abstract. You quote a show and go cold in the bed. You send a clip as proof you are safe to love. You let a pastor, a clinician, a verified badge, this frequency, do the seeing so you never have to sit with the child who is still waiting for a trustworthy witness. That hunger is real. Black life has been starved for one. A brand will colonize the hunger and call the colonization leadership. Then the badge fails. Sex. The scheme. Flesh under the costume. You gasp. The gasp is the alibi. You hired the statue so the house would not have to meet you. A mentor who is not a vendor holds up what the ego buried and ran from. Not so you can worship the glass. So you can digest what is in it. You are not the broken self that needs a bodyguard. That story is the ego’s last paycheck. A clean teacher does not get paid in your kneeling. They show it and step aside. Peter walked until he split the walker from the word that said walk. Who are you when you are not quoting somebody famous. What truth has come out in your own words. If this hour becomes your character reference, somebody at home is still unpaid.