Amen? 2026

It takes the might of the God that must be there or else you would be dead

There must be a thousand ways I could say to you I hate you yet you would never understand how far that goes

For me it has never been a black or a white thing

Just about how you treat your own

Yet I heard there is a Church that I can do some gambling in the back after hours

you gotta really count your blessings over there

you test your luck when you leave the house

and fear when your turn on your phone

you must walk with caution on these narrow streets careful where you step

and where you look

and what you love

and what you touch

and what you discard

keep the things you love closer than you care to keep

if only you knew how much time was left there would be no room for the world to take away from this precious and tangible time

one of the only true things that is real in front of us

I can not look at what is good when the greed makes me gasp for air

when I get back from work

on the train I see people with much less breath than me

on their faces they beg for air

but I can not give what I do not have yet

It takes the might of God to save me from what I think is next

I can only pray I do not know the outcome to the ignorance that surrounds me

There was never time to find that out for my grandmother

There might never be time for me to know if we ever came close.