Full Circle

For the why'd I be slidin', you'd too if you's stranded with neverythings

The folly nighed in; I'd upside it, there's rationale to what withered means

When it gone awry'd and defied it, guess snappin' back is just built in me

I take pride in bein' strength-strided, they'd doubt I'd last independently

No smooth-glidin' I often cried it out graspin' my bended knees

Been un-ryed and self-relied it in havin' to ration within the means

Take a ride with my side of the story in how I transformed a shift in me;

Hip-Hop guided bona-fideds, since a grad I was classless of '15

An only-child confideless, but Ma provided without daddy he deadbeat

And kin misguided, 'cause they hardly tried to actually connect with me

Could've sighed it, 'til they decided insult should add to the injury

Made 'em wide-eyed when I applied back their actions by mirroring

And the divide is how I override where theirs wholly lacks in integrity

See I'd devastate in clever ways, it's how battle rap mentored me

(Though initially lost, I couldn't–)

Nurture an unheard-of quirk, 'til I unearthed that aspect instinctively

My wallflower was withering, the pot was smash'ed to smithereens

So loose-leaves were the means I compos'd, my organical energy

Sheddin' light on my circumstances felt the growth, of ad'aptability

Papillon freedom from the pen, in my escape plans caterpillaring

Got birds crawlin' back, wondering if my pantheon nectar's sweet

('Cause now I–)

Chew the fat-headed social butterflies, oh, how my abdomen's tingling...

 

The tongue-tyin' wasn't just shyness

Was hidin' from dysfunct' one-sideds

Since age one-five in wanderlust, dyin' to, but a ship-jumped migrant

Going maniacal and a-rrivin', 'cause I needed the other type of, a-sylum

Hushed quietness unrecognized, nudged me higher into shunned silence

So from an erupted dy-namic, volcanic, I became a young island.

Now I'm someone who's just private, don't show up uninvited

Don't clear the air and you'll be holding patterns, I'll obstruct fly-in's

Declinin' calls when I'm bluff dialin', I burn bridges with the ones lyin'

Getting dunked on, 'cause they missed the boat and sunk tryin'

Blubberin', those muffled cries reconcile mine, and they dun' like it

You'll be calling me Nishino-Shima; growing every year into, a giant

'Til I build a country into one of milk & honey, they're gonna wanna colonize it