7. "king's back"

who tried to say
i wasn’t confident…
too anxious for that…
well, not for nothing but…
i am the poetry king here…
soft boy’s got shit to say…
you know he’ll go say it…

let’s do this.

sometimes, you gotta
change things up a bit,
gotta let the world know
you can brag a little bit,
show them you got shit
you can hold up high.
“he sits in his room and
gets anxious all the time,
how can he sit and brag?”
well, there’s real shit that
soft boy can be proud of.
small victories to others
are big wins in his eyes.

how about the fact that
his words hit harder than
the ones that write raps?
how about the fact that
the soft boy can put out
such a large quantity of
high-quality work so quick?
how about the fact that
the boy’s not afraid to
be unabashedly him,
regardless of the real
negative judgments
that may follow him?

yeah, he got his flaws,
yeah, he gets sad easy,
yeah, he’s always anxious,
but the softy can still go
brag about himself a bit
and leave all his readers
waiting for the next project.
doesn’t matter if he’s up,
doesn’t matter if he’s down,
the boy says stuff that will
stick with you after you read.

there’s a reason soft boy is
the “poetry king,” because he
gives it his all, no matter what.
declining views? doesn’t matter.
too much at once? no such thing.
same-y topics? still makes them hit.
call it basic, call it oversensitive,
call it a mess of his anxieties,
call it whatever the hell you want.
he calls it his pride and joy, and
he’s gonna keep pushing at it.

yeah…king’s back, indeed…
didn’t know he left but…
the crown’s all his now…
keep putting in that work…
never discourage yourself…
you’re gonna have the world
right behind you one day…
i promise you won’t fall…

king’s back.