It's Not Crazy (Divine)

Damn, that's crazy They say I'm crazy They say I'm crazy They say It's crazy We say it's crazy But no it's not crazy I said no it's not crazy Not crazzzzyyyyy Naw naw naw It's Divine It's not crazy It's divine Never out of line But time after time We lose rhythm to find rhyme Time to time Dancing on dotted lines But eye know how to read Eye know left from write Know coincidences are just lacking in sight You see there is no need for the blind to lead me When I have inner sight And I know this path And I know it well And it chose me And I walk it well I'm not crazy Too many times are we as people of color Filtering our pain and suppressing our truth And I get called "strong" a lot What do people think life is like for "strong" people I'm not omitted from anything any other human being deals with So many fail to realize how much it takes to maintain a balance To where not only I manage and navigate through my own trauma But also the trauma of those I love Everyday you can maintain that balance But the moment you get overwhelmed and react to anything that triggers you You are deemed crazy I do not believe anyone is crazy I feel like that word discourages people of color And creates an insecurity about our truth The world is insensitive to the truth of black people The truth that as a black person you are taught that to just be black is never enough The mentality of I cant just be another nigga Or I cant be my father or my mother or my cousins or my neighbor I must exceed my blackness to be black excellence and only black excellence The idea that blackness is anything but excellent Creates this pressure to perform at a standard none around us seem to attain Yet is what society holds us to Average is failure in our eyes We become insensitive to our own emotions Throwing all we feel aside to not let it interfere with our performance in society The truth is that even the most artistic Most successful Most articulate of black individuals possess a degree of pain That takes a great amount of effort to balance We are not crazy What's crazy is that nobody seems to have these conversations on a scale To where we as black people do not feel isolated within our experience And thats crazy By individually choosing to walk in our truth We become unified and united And we can love freely without fear that those we love will betray or abandon us Or cause us more trauma The fear that our truth will push everyone away creates a lie That soothes everyone but the person living the lie It's important we get to the sources of our pain So that we understand that we Our truest selves - is already excellent and deserving of love and acceptance And in no way must we filter our truth to appease others You are not crazy You are divine You are not crazy You are divine You are not crazy You are divine They say I'm crazy They say I'm crazy They say IT's crazy We say it's crazy But no it's not crazy I said no it's not crazy Not crazzzzyyyyy Naw naw naw It's Divine