How Deep?

I’m deep

Deeper than the coast

Deeper than people at a pig roast

Deeper than Swat

Deeper than those who have and have not

I’m deep

Deeper than deep

Deeper than Outkast’s song Deep

Deeper than those who say “I’m deep up in these streets”

Deeper than the knowledge that speckles the teeth of the meek

I’m deep

Deep like the inability to wake you from your sleep type of deep

Deeper than the “southern trees baring strange food” dialect deep

Deeper than Method Man’s “Love Jones for your body and your skin tone” deep

I’m deep

Deeper than Malcolm’s faith in the Honorable Eljiah deep

Deeper than Huey P. Newton’s knowledge of his second amendment deep

Deeper than the March on Washington and Bloody Sunday deep

I’m deeper than spoken word spewing from the mouths of the poetic

While pulling people deep into the knowledge

That was once lost

But now is found

Reveal in me

The deepness that sparks the passionate souls

Of those with abashed characters

Those who need enlightenment

I say

I’m deep

Come be deep

With me