Can’t Be Still

I been down so long I can’t be still.

Moving towards an ascent. Money, a woman’s switch, better books, environment, and food for health. I need to feel them between my fingers.

My eyes dart. My heart races. Shuffling through people frozen in circles of better tomorrows because their high vacates today’s sorrows.

I ain’t with running in place. I know mine and it’s at the table with the most high. Surrounded by the grace pumping from my heart. I’m at the point where suffering is an afterthought.

I put family first. To make me a shooting star, moving without fizzle. I am the light of my family’s will.