I Know This

I know this

This I know

All that I have

All that is me

Resides inside my poetry

Every time I write a rhyme

It might be the line that sets minds free

And also I know that

I don’t know shit

And the more I know

The more I realize it

I know that for all of the pain I’ve cried

There’s the exact same balance of joy

On the other side of that coin

Joined with the thinnest slip of membrane

Same goes for crazy and sane

Truth and lie

Answer and why

Because I know this

This universe operates with a divine tug of war

Teeter totter, bringing order and balance like the tide does to water

Like I know that each wave rolls back to the sea

Retreating from me into deep green eternity

And I know that I am free

Well, at least in my mind if I wanna be

I know that some things sound good to me in theory

But in point of fact suck ass in actual practice

Like communism

And pornography

I know that it’s impossible to really know where anyone is coming from

So who are we to judge em?

I know that some things

Are so dope they transcend their category

And it’s important to see the glory in the ordinary

Like, I know there’s Nog Chompa

And there’s all other incense

I can’t see putting earl gray against any other tea

Lash Out? It’s not even on the same plane

As other mascaras comparatively

And I know that theres R&B

And then there’s Otis Redding

I know that most things are greater

Than the sums of their parts

And that’s the real definition of art

Like brownies are good and so is whipped cream

But you put ‘em together

And it’s this whole fuckin chemical other thing like

Lennon and McCartney singing harmony like

Masturbating as compared to an orgy

I know that everything

Within this surface glimpse of reality

Is infinitely simple and perfectly complicated

I know that being dated and over it

Is way overrated

And that the colors of this world

Only seem faded in direct relation to the darkness

With which your mind’s eye is shaded

And you made it that way

And you can choose to change your vision’s prismic range today

And I know that you gotta help a friend who’s down

And I know that no matter where you end up

You’re still from your home town

And I know that you gotta know how to listen

To the sound of your own heart beat

In the dead quiet of night sometimes

And I know that can be so frightening but

I also know that the deepest darkness

Is always the most enlightening

And I know that fresh cold cantaloupe

Tastes like the perfect first kiss

And I know that Lao Tsu and Moses

And Mohammed and Buddha and Jesus

And all those dudes knew some deep-ass shit

But I also know that we all hold the worlds eternal truths

In our heart’s deepest pit

It’s because I know that we are made up of the

Same stuff as the

Sun and the Moon and the farthest stars and

All that we are is manifest energy and that

We already have everything that we could ever need

If we could just begin to see clearly

And I know that the world will continue to spin

And I know that the world will continue to spin

And I know that one day

You will let me in

And we will begin to love in a fashion

I couldn’t fathom existed

And we will laugh at the fact

That we ever resisted this blissful togetherness

And the sex?

Well, it’ll be off the charts

'Cause we'll both be

Super freaky

But we’ll be fucking

From the heart

'Cause our loving will be something where the

Whole is much greater than the sum of the parts

'Cause were artists after all

So what else would fate have us make besides art?

And I know that outside of this space time frame

We are one and the same

We’re a part, not apart

So I know that I can wait patiently for it to start

And far out I may seem to be and

Maybe you may see me as wacky but baby

The fact be that I am a poet

And like all true poets do I’m

Mainlining the spiraling spherical truth of the universe

Turning it out and

Into lyrical wholeness

And I know this

And I know this

This I know

This I know