Free Them

I am excited to announce that Janette. . .ikz will be sharing at the OC F.R.E.E. T.H.E.M event, "It Starts at Home."



She will be performing a shortened version of this piece.





If you are in the Orange County/LA Metro area, please consider coming to this event. It's looking to be pretty spectacular!

Silence is Deadly by Ezekiel Azonwu with transcription

I could teach you how to kill without choking, stabbing or shooting.
Just walk past someone who's dying and do this
And it's funny--I'm stuck instructing this tough class but I just passed
I was not the good Samaritan--I was the priest who just passed
Who can't understand why he's only washing his hands after taking his blood bath but
But here's the lesson:
Death is the equivalent to life when life is unmentioned.
So scratch the strife and the tension
You might as well pull them to the side, look them in the eye, and tell them, "I want you to die."

And if they're struggling and desperate for a word of life to survive,
Just keep your mouth closed--now that's homicide
Most Christians are so eager to open their mouths to bless me,
But when I'm struggling with sin, they hold the truth back and
pat me on the back gently, and tell me something sweet,
cuz they don't want to offend me
At that point it was so necessary for me to repent
see, I was driving on grace while my tank was on empty
why only bash violence when silence is so deadly?
And Scripture says our tongues hold the power of life and death
And that helps, but couldn't we use our powers to bring life to someone else?
if we just think it but never speak it, then death will volunteer itself

Shhh don't mention it.  Shhhh just roll with it
Shhhhh it's the generation of hush
Hush mode-ism. And it's ruining us
you can trust that people are thinsting for the living water
so why are we so busy sweating bullets
trying to keep it a secret that they're sure to be dry. . .Bones
In this valley we are all Ezekiels
God needs us to speak to his people
Shall they live? I don't know
Cuz honestly, if I'm not speaking life into you, I'm killing you
I see some of you are feeling the same type of conviction I'm feeling too
Cuz if I had an adjective to describe the type of killers we've become, it would be serial
And I'm serious, just look at us
Even in our personal lives, we've hidden behind our lies so many times
that our hearts have a hard time convincing our minds that everything is fine,
so because of our pride, we keep our lips sealed, and pretend that we're mimes

not knowing that our audience is potentially blind

But my God speaks Braille, and it's only difficult

If you can't see what He did for you 

So I don't care what they did to you, know how much it gets to you

regardless of who disrespected, rejected, or neglected you, slept with you

and sexually transmitted disease infected you 

no matter who, what ,when, where, why or how they spiritually  or physically molested you

raped you, betrayed you, spit in your face just to show you how much they hate you

despite what they did against you, 

if you take two seconds and think about how you've offended God, 

it should make you understand how much you deserve death just as much as they do

so if they hurt you, let them know, speak forgiveness, let it go, 

cuz my brethren you should know holding a grudge is the same as holding a gun

with the intention of having someone resting in peace

why do you think they say, speak now or forever hold your click-click peace?

you know sometimes we can be like old TVs 

with antennae that can't receive signals from above so they shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

but God wants you to transmit that big picture with love

so don't let fear remote control you

cuz no matter how much static is in your view on Christ's station,

it's never cute to be mute in volume

so I dare you to be different, cuz by faith I've made a decision 

that even if I was somehow placed in a prison

feet tied up, hands cuffed, face duct-taped up, 

I would summon my faith in the Christ who saved us

through the manifestations of my heart's meditations, 

I'd initiate communicate with my brain and 

translate that information to my nerves and my veins, 

sending words to my epidermis surface in case my lips couldn't release my statements,

I'd nod, twitch, and wiggle and wink you towards salvation

The spirit of pride--every spirit of pride or lack of boldness, I destroy it in the name of Jesus

You are now granted freedom to life--and not just to have it, but to speak it

Just allow God to breathe it, your CPR is needed

so if anyone is ever seeking for life, through the power of your words

I pray and I wish that I never see anyone go shhhhhhh

Cuz Christ took lashes of the whip--and I'm not talking the regular whip

The kind of whip that when inflicted, causes the flesh to rip and compels you to go --

So you never have to go shhh

And now that we know that God has chosen that our spiritual reproductive organs be manifested 

by our words through our lips when we're speaking supernaturally we're conceiving by our words 

through our lips 

so how can life continue to exist when my sisters keep them closed and my brothers keep them zipped?

so for the sake of life I beg you to open your mouth and speak

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Almost by Ezekiel Azonwu (transcription included)

one of the most dangerous terms in English diction

if it could be translated into audio it would sound like

pbb-bb-bb-bb from the saxophone of Lisa Simpson

two words designed and strategically combined

to form the biggest oxymoron in the history of mankind

ALL-MOST

But see, as far as the world's concerned, you could live your life vile

and could almost get away with murder if you had a nice smile

you could almost meet folks just to almost sleep around

and stop at your local clinic while you almost had a child.

see, 'almost' is no stranger to Satan. Here's proof:

he only tells lies when they're almost the truth

and it's amazing in our incompleteness we find complacence

but if almost is one of Lucifer's many traits

then we are inadvertently good Satan impersonations

But on the contrary, Christ did his job fully

and he proved he was God when he died on the cross like it was his duty

and to pardon my iniquities that I commited rudely

he resurrected from the grave just to tell death to excuse me

but excuse me, this is your life and that's something I can't impose on

but your body is God's home which was alone about to get forclosed on

See, an almost Christian looks right but lives wrong

Can't stand the conviction in Romans so they sit down to be comforted in Psalms

Never understood worship but loved to sing songs like I surrender all. . .MOST

Cuz it's far to expensive to spend your life on something that doesn't appeal to your five senses

see, nowadays, Christianity is like a Louis rag--

no function or use but we just rock it cuz it's stylish

not righteous, but right-ish

So now all God sees is a pile of ISHmael's when he intended for Isaac's

And we're moved by how we feel so we're saved when we feel like it

so technically we've never really been saved we merely tried it.

So no wonder why we're never sold out when we return it after we buy it

Let me break it down because you need to beware

that your life could lack the very standards that need to be there

Cuz on that final day of judgment while God's receiving his heir

will he say, Son, well done or [spits] medium rare!

Cuz even by earthly standards it would be highly insane

to start spending all of your money days before you almost get paid

like parents, you wouldn't send your kids to a school that's almost safe

and ladies, would you really date a man who claims he's almost straight?

and this is the very thing about God that we all try to get around

but his standards are like between two mountains--no middle ground

so a halfway life is unprofitable to you

cuz after all the Sunday service, Bible studies, and prayer meetings

and everything that goes between, God will say I never knew you

But that's not even the worst part of living your life as neutral

it's that you were once arctic but it is your lukewarmness that is causing him to spew you

and this is the very thing that had me

I was bound and held down by the unforgiving gravity of my spiritual reality

I was a Christian, or at least I portrayed the fantasy

With a filthy personal life but a "God bless you brother, how you doin' sister?" personality

I was a male enveloped by guilt because I was stamped a sinner

My message couldn't be received because I didn't represent the sender yet I was almost delivered

Till that one day when I totally, absolutely and completely surrendered

I took heed to a modern prophet who proclaimed it was time for change

now I'm no longer bound to sin point-blank off the chain

You can ask Umar Abdul Mutallab, he'll tell you the same--

you don't almost go to jail when you almost blow up a plane

like you don't almost go to hell when you almost get saved

despised the cross that he was slain and thus the cause for which he came

but don't worry i'm almost done, but before i leave this stage

we have all worked in sin and death was minimum wage

but if it wasn't for Christ we would have almost got paid

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