CIX (119) Be It

In order to be the best version of me.

I have to free myself to be myself.

Instead of being trapped in the cycle of being the man I used to be.

In order to free myself,

I have to be myself.

No try to be the man I used to be.

My mind’s been playing tricks on me.

Wasting time on what could have been,

Instead of looking ahead, asking what could be?

Sankofa!

I do look back to try to understand

The shackles that have been weighing on me.

And when I look at the captor,

The reflection I see is me.

For the first time in a long time

I admit to myself

I want to be the Greatest like Muhammad Ali.

But that’s scary.

I could never be Ali. (in this lifetime)

Just like you can’t ever be me. (in this lifetime)

But I could be the greatest “A-L-E-C Number Three,”

That’s me.

The Greatest Me.

I’m trying to free myself to be myself, the best version of me.

I’m trying to free myself to be myself,

The Best version of me.

I’m trying to free myself to see myself.

The Future version of me, what could be.

Here’s number there.

Here’s a little wu-woo, Ju-Ju

G.O.D. inner-G:

Thoughts become things.

And if that sounds too woo-wu, foo-fu, “self-helpy.”

My thoughts became words,

You can hear them right now.

If I put them on paper or screen you could see.

If thoughts become things,

Then words can shape reality.

Mind your thoughts,

Watch your words,

Ask yourself: Who do you really want to be?

Specifically what do you want to do?

And who do you want to be?

Name Your Self!

My name was chosen for me,

My name is legacy:

My Grandfather, Father, and me.

The Story of a grandfather.

The story of jazz.

The story of a father.

The story of me.

The story of a Dad.

As I wrote words of a new play about fathers and sons.

The fatherhood journey began for me.

Thoughts become things.

I’ve been tapping into a transcendent alchemy.

And now the story continues.

So I ask myself:

What version of me do I want to be?

Have I ever allowed myself to be free?

If some of are aren’t free, none of us are free.

Have you ever been free?

Who has actually been to the promised land?

That’s been the plan

But that’s the journey of humanity.

That’s why I always looked up to Muhammad Ali.

He taught me that it’s okay to be black and free.

He taught me how to fight to get free.

The more we free ourselves

The more we free others to possibility.

That’s why I aspire to be The Greatest Storyteller.

The greatest Alec The Third

The greatest future father

The greatest me

If I could inspire just one other to be the greatest of them.

The we could all become the greatest of we.