by Caustan De Riggs on Monday, November 26, 2007 at 12:44pm

Nothing left to say but everything to gain
Like a rock on the beach
Let the water shape my face

Time to flow free, like the blood in my veins
But I take and give back to every cell on my way

Gotta take time, time take me to that place
Time made my rhymes stick deeper in ya brain
Rhymes made my brain connect thoughts to ya face
The words off my tongue will bring you heat or bring you grace

We all choose where we stand and choices hold us to that place
This is what I mean …cuz off the cusp I’ll let it reign
Every single word born within the hour’s frame
In less than expected time I will raise the bar’s name

“They” say you pay a price if you dare to be Great.
“They" say you need mind, and mind what you say.
Quoted all the time but I ask really who is “they”?

And I play with these words to bring you deeper in this space.
The space between the lines that keeps us thinking in our place.

I let these words live cuz from my mind they will fade
Like the dust off the board when the teacher wrote their name.
…Wow I felt a chill after I wrote that on the page.
Like no one ever said it and now it’s spoken in this age.

My prof is watching me questioning why my thoughts are entertained
I’m writing this in class, 15 minutes til the break
Staring at the clock like it owes me spare change
Watching the red hand cut the seconds like age.

This is a funny day, you know a really funny day.
Cuz I woke up this morning
fresh,
Justified, not phased.

These are words I post here in a public place
But can you imagine skill I keep saved on another page
Read what you will
Even copy, cut and paste

Just remember that the process you can never replicate.