Elohim (1972) - Saul Williams

In 1972 my mother was rushed from a James Brown concert in order to give birth

to me

My style is black hole

Most niggas simply sound like earth to me

If hip-hop were the moon I’d be the first to bleed

Cyclical sacraments of self for all my peers to read

I recite the user night the light for you to read by

Have you floating on cloud nine without you realizing it’s my mind’s sky

And the ground on which you walk is the tongue with which I talk

I speak the seas, I root the trees of suburbia and New York

City streets can never claim me, that’s why I never sound like you

All y’all niggas claim the streets as if paths through the woods ain’t true

You better walk your path, you better do the math

'Cuz your screw face will only make the Buddha laugh

Even if you know your lessons you don’t know the half

But don’t take it from me

Son, take a bath

I can recite the grass on the hill and memorize the moon

I know the cloud forms of love by heart

And have brought tears to the eye of the storm

My memory banks walk forests and Amazon river banks

And I scream them into sunsets that echoed in earthquakes

Shadows have been my spotlight as I monologue the night

And dialogue with days

Soliloquies of wind and breeze

Applauded by sun-rays

We put language in zoos to observe caged thought

And toss peanuts and P-Funk at intellect

And motherfuckers think these are metaphors

I speak what I see

All words and worlds are metaphors of ME

My life was authored by the moon

Footprints written in soil

The fountain pen of martian men

Noveling human toil

And yes, the soil speaks highly of me

But earth seeds root me poetry

And read forests forever through recitation

Now

Maybe I’m too serious

Too little here to matter

Though I’m riddled with the reason of the sun

I stand up comet with the audience of lungs

This body of laughter is it with me or at me?

Hue more or less

Human though gender’s mute

And the punchline has it’s lifeline at it’s root

I’m a star this life of suburbs I commute

Make daily runs between the sun and earthly loot

And raise my children to the height of light and truth