ASCAP Registration #: 928388433 Mom’s gone, her legacy in vainFoster child, left out in the rainNotice read, no mention of my nameErased from history, a shame to claim She called me daughter, but now I’m just a lineIn a list of names, without a signLeft out of mourning, as if I’m a crimeThe foster child’s pain, in a rhyme that’s mine She called me “daughter” with prideWas no coattail for me to just rideSo now it is recanted?I’ll take it in my strideNever had family but they so backslide Now they’ve set it truly into ink:“…foster children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren”No […]
Title Track: Chains
Democracy’s in chains, power plays the gameCorporations call the shots, they have no shameThe people, silenced, while special interests reignWe’re witnessing history, as our rights go up in flames Fast-paced fury fuels our fightFor freedom, justice, and what’s rightWe won’t back down, we won’t give inLet freedom echo, and make the system right again The disabled are ignored, the L B Q T I A + are shamedNeurodivergent minds are marginalized, and B L I P O C blamed;Denied their rights, their dignity, and their place in this landWe stand complicit by silence, democracy is dying by our hand Fast-paced […]
Track title: Worn
ASCAP registration #: 926945387 Fifty-nine years, life on me has wornInternal skies gray as an empty dawnKids abandon me, they’ve got their own waysLeft to suffer my rest of days Broken heart and a deeply weary soulTook every hit, so they might have controlSacrificed shamelessly so they could be wholeShamelessly sacrificed, left upon life’s shoal Left me behind without them to claim Gave them all but they deny my name Never had family, a life-long refrainNever belonging, always an endless strainEven from my children, no warmth to claimThe story unfolding, no one ever sustains I used to move, like rays […]
Track title: Cognito (Discrimination)
Cognitive discrimination it’s just so keen;2009 by citation, 15 years since we’ve seenLegal by decree, bow to rights of business, too;Business gets them rights, but not me and you. Why “judgement of the business”? Fed’s jobs database for this exists;Why “judgement of the business”? They’ll only say it “makes no sense.” (cents) The ADA and EEOC proudly proclaim,No filtering disabled humans again.But ‘Right to Judgement’ is their shameFearing to break, they always bend All along, all along, all along, all along, the disabled, we have knownNo one cares about us, under closest rug we’re thrown A cognitive assessment put all […]
Track title: Socialness (Is About Information)
ASCAP registration #: 926570032 Aspiration I want to conveyDeterioration I want to defrayOpinionation I want to swayIgnorance of this world, I want to slay Science says there is confirmation biasOther forms as well, constantly deny us Yet our minds have this capabilityWhen applied to data with neutralityPatterns emerge oddly mutuallyFull context blooms with nuance you see The paradox in universal reality?Every answer in its own context, actually. Socialness is about informationUsefulness to others by its communicationBenefit, the outcome of our common groundSurvival as species, to this future are we bound We get context by rigorous studyChallenging our convictions bloodyRefine our […]
Track title: Universal Reality (You Belong)
ASCAP registration #: 925895562 Like mud to the brick or wind to the sailWe create liberation or we build our own jailIt is always the way, whether we win or we failThe life is ours, why remain in the pale? Life continues with its crazy to and froThe world pulls at us to ebb when we want to flowFinally must decide to just let all of it goNow we have the time to care for self and grow A universe in which we are a central sunLight our life’s path so our goals may be won We all are here […]
Track title: Little Star
You are my sunshineEach and every single dayWho abandons the sunshineI never wanted to go away You are my moon riseThrough every lonely nightI dreamt how in reunion’s eyesWe’d make everything alright You are my Little StarA beacon day and nightNo matter where you areI’ve held you close inside I call you after the universeThat you represent to meEven though you disbelieveThough you refuse to ever see One cannot forget the universeOne can only call that a curseOne seeks not such a reverseWhy must life be so perverse Why is it so attractive for youTo think that I don’t careYou […]
Track title: Vivo Vivere
Every new day bringsChance to give life wingsSpace to play and singSuch an amazing thing Things that come our waySome will go, some stayLife is a game we playEnduring come what may This culture and societyInsists we’re bound, cannot be freeDelusional constructs they are not lifeThey’re antithesis abounding,filled with chaos and strife There is a deeper being open to me and youThere is a better way and it is more tried and trueIt begins when you accept your right to live, to beWithout any justification, Vivo vivere I live to live, and that’s the truthThat I exist, it’s called initial […]
Track title: Allowed
Of all things known, we are uniqueOf all things grown, we can speakOf all things shown, we are peakWe are alone, mostly oblique We’re blessed with gifts, beyond compareA unique signature, that we all shareTo speak our truth, to share our voiceTo leave our mark, our beacon’s choiceOf all things seen, we are so rareYet still we refuse to unite, fully share Why do we hide, behind masks of shame?Waste the potential that rests in our name?We’re given minds, to learn, soar, and playBut instead we wither, losing our wayWe’re blessed with fire against each nightBut we dim our flame, […]
Track title: Just Right
I wake up every morning, feeling like I’m homeA sense of peace, a sense of purpose, no more need to roamIn this one place, where I feel most aliveThe world slows down, I am found, and love becomes the ride It’s not just a feeling, it’s a knowing in my bonesThat I’m exactly where I’m meant to be, with the ones who make me wholeThey see the real me, they love me for who I amIn their eyes, I am reflected strong and calm I belong here, I am loved just rightIn this place, I take flight, feel like I […]