It Was Written

It was written before I wrote it 

and would have been regardless of whether I had written it down

but I wrote it anyway so that you could remember it

and I could find some evidence of it

no excuse for ignoring it

for it is 

and will be

even if you cross it out

See I wrote it so that you would have to face IT now

and it was written way before Nas had Street Dreams and delivered The Message

and the mixtape was written before Lu spit it 

before he added -pe and stuck Fiasco to it

It was written in 'lu' 

of chance 

it was written by fate

and I write it so I can hold 

your fate

my fate

hold it in my hands

mold it

try and 

control it

erase what I don't like

...or else try

See it was written so we would acknowledge it

so we would pay homage to His name and

to what is important in it

so we could twist it and attempt to make it our own 

and this too was written 

before I wrote it but I wrote it anyway

-Jacqueline Naami