Once commanded a literal understanding
of commandment tablets and Quran fragments
making my mathematics tantric
wasn’t baptized so I couldn’t claim Christ as the savior of my life
hated the fact he turned water into wine
because wine became water to my father
He beat me, my brother and my grandmother’s daughter
as he led his lambs to the slaughter
three souls drowned in the thoughts of the brain washer
making it harder to believe Heaven was branded beyond the granite
church made me pay to search for the creator of earth
they turned religion into a system of pimpin’
watching angels back handing planets knocking my world off it’s axis
true meanings unmasked
teachings we believe in written by a drunken heathen
known as the king of England
plights of Israelites partially removed due to so-called moments of clarity
now known as Hebrews we knew only to seize the moment
making anything before us ancient, the future adjacent
complacent with struggles of previous generations
denying the enslavement of entire populations
Black men confined to join a nation
telling me god is a fragment of my imagination
because the man who created him was pagan, lacking pigmentation
millions became Malcolm Little reading behind dictionary pages
spiritualization treated as pussy so we could face it
still I’m Max from Pi, drilling holes in my brain
to relieve frustration of not deciphering 216 character equations