So one day this dude steps to me

And upon rejection

He

says, "You don’t give

Romance

A fair chance"

But the fact is

I’m quite the romantic

It's just the One whose charted my heart’s path

Is really kind of matchless

From His Genesis to Revelations

I mean even the woes of His Lamentations

Move me

So for someone else to woo me

You gotta come correctly

See

I want someone to court me

Spit truths like Paul in Phillipians 1:3

Stand flat footed locked eyes and say he thanks God upon every remembrance of me

Now that’s deep

Peep

I want someone to go beyond the external

Beyond the superficial and physical to something eternal

That extension of what I give to God and what He gives to me

The he that makes me wanna draw nearer to the Trinity

That’s the type of brother you gotta be

Cuz see

I’m not looking for a part time lover

That’s not the way I get down

I want somebody that’s gonna be around

20 years from now

Someone who sees the future with my first name joined to his last

Sees that old American dream and me as a part of his math

I’m talking

2 car garage, 2.5 children all totaling oneness

With the one that's looking for a lifetime of the ups and downs of marital bliss

Not the someone to jump ship when he no longer feels like he’s feeling this

And it’s not that I’m conceited

I’ve just conceded

That I’m created with purpose

So I can’t lose focus

By wasting time and space

Given all of me just to take

Up seconds, minutes, hours, days, in others words to aimlessly date

When in reality if we ain’t looking at whether God has set us aside to be each others lifetime mate

What would we actually be doing

You claim you ain’t just casually step to me

Ain’t here cuz you tryna get w/ me

So please explain to me

What exactly are you pursuing

Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t rushing down the aisle

Trekking any dude between pews

Picking out dresses or mentally writing the vows before our I dos

Because quite honestly

I’ve already discovered my worth so it’s now up to someone to find me

I’m just telling you plainly

That I’m a Proverbs 31:10 young lady

So if that ain’t what you checking for when you checking me then check this I’m aight

This elect lady

Whose price is far above rubies remains content to be called solely

The waiting and preparing bride of Christ

I’m not sitting around idly

Waiting for someone to come by and wife me

I’m on my grind for the King

And I can’t entertain anything

That ain’t about the same

Not just in name,

but we gotta be able to walk together AGREED

Two people, One faith, One doctrine, One God, One plan, One mind, one goal, one road one need

So I hope you can see

It’s not that I don’t give romance a fair chance

Because the fact is

I’m quite the romantic

And I’m in a love affair with a love that’s rare

And I’m holding out for a love like His

(c) 2012 TL Murphy

When I grab the mic and spit

It’s not so the people can say, “Yooooooooo she ripped it!”

But I use this art

Of spittin’ lines

Of poetic rhymes

To grip minds

And change hearts

I spit

So that young men will have greater dreams for their lives

Than hip hop and hoops

Bigger things on their minds

Than gettin’ dimes and

Pushin’ coupes

Use their brain to maintain

More information than the cost of blunts and an ounce of dope

I spit to bring them hope

I spit

So that young girl who doesn’t feel loved

Can be told that she is not beneath but above

That she is the head and not the tail

So she won’t be compelled

To give either one to some dude that’s tryna sample her goods and bail

So she won’t fail

To see that she’s a jewel not plastic

See that the parting of her legs ain’t what makes her majestic

But her majesty

Comes from the imagery

Of the Trinity

Etched in every line of her face

So she won’t waste

Time tryna find it everywhere but the right place

But she’ll know that her bounty is locked in

The Father’s love and the sufficiency of His grace!

I spit

So those of us who missed

Out on being fathered by our fathers

Will know that we ain’t gotta sit back

And let that lack

In our past cause our future to be devoured

But know that when we didn’t see him

Our FATHER was there

Lovingly watching over us because of how He cared

So intoxicated with love that He took time to number each strand of our hair

And even though

We never had

The earthly man we wanted to call dad

We were created on purpose

So don’t lose focus

But note this

The Father of all creation deems us worth it!

I spit

Not just for this

But so those trapped in the net

Of lies and compromise

Don’t forget

That someone has been sent

That will stand up and expose the truth

I spit for those who

Are waiting w/expectation

For someone displaying and saying

Change is possible

So people

Will know that Christ is the answer before they even get into the problem

I

Spit

To

Show

Them

The way out of predicaments

Evident

To have been sent

To cause their descent

Into the right now at the expense

Of their future tense

I spit to shine a light on who they were created to be

From before

There

Was even there

So they’ll beware

Of every pitfall

That’s set to catchall

Those that are birthed for greatness

I spit

For those young mothers left without fathers that feel they can’t get by

I spit for every young girl and young boy who thought no one heard their cries

I spit for the souls that are bound and long to be free

I spit for the one’s God calling saying now’s the time take heed

I Purpose through these verses

2 spit

For the silent and misunderstood

I spit life to the death that’s taking over our hoods

I spit healing of every hurt

Every pain

Every tear

Every loss

Of every sinner and every saint

From the White House to the crack house

From the hills to the valleys

Cradles to the graves

I spit

I spit because He’s put this in in my belly

Bitter and sweet

For me first to digest it then open my mouth and speak

Speak for all who need to hear one or feel they don’t have a voice

See this is Divine necessity that’s been placed upon me

This thing ain’t even a choice!

So with all due respect

I ain’t gotta be called the best at this

Because I was called to use this gift

And bless with this

That means I can’t care

If what I put out there

Is “rockin’ the crowd”

Because I ain’t up here for the applause but the commission and cause

That it’s time to CRY LOUD

Proclaim truth in this world soaked through in fallacy

Gotta ignore left and do what’s right when wrong we embrace too easily

And I’m gonna do this

Every chance I get

Every stage I hit

Every mic I grip

Because this is why I’m here and this is why I spit!