The Race of Identity: Lips & Poetry

October 13, 2026 by

Lips and Language

God vs Man

In the beginning were you male or female?

For His children it’s a choice already decided but for some, the very few, confusion lingers and brings them to a place of unanswered questions

Who am I

Where did I come from and

Where am I going

Lowering my understanding of truth while taking in public opinion I set my mind to win the battle that has been haunting my comfortability in this skin they say is so detestable

I swallowed the lies that my thighs dictated my whole identity

Or that my cries of race were just a bait

They created a new sound that proposed inequality of race was the same as choice of sexual preference allowing space for those who cry out of the depths of gender collusion

Who’s brains aren’t even developed enough to understand

The lies swallowed that flew out from the broken hearted and rejected

We take set in telling ppl how not to live their lives

While allowing others to set the pace for the race we engage in

So we stay in flight, running from those who yell the nasties

Yet fight when confronted with actual truths

Freezing only when we can’t make sense of the emotions deep within

Which way do we walk when everywhere seems thin

Sin nature makes us question everything that is truly good

Should we choose to accept that we were uniquely made

And Divinely set a part

Or do we yell freedom, this is my life my choice, my new start

We choose what to set ablaze and what to ask forgiveness for

Can’t you see that we have the ability to set our mind and lives free from

The disparities of this modern sodom society

While building our Identity sobriety

Some say fight some yell peace but

Can’t you see that they are trying unsuccessfully to re write history

In the beginning was not created by human nor human opinion

In the beginning was the true start to the life we have been privileged to walk

We don’t begin as one and end as another

The truth is often much more simpler than the lie we want to be our reality

So which will you believe?

In the beginning God created our identities ?
or that the creator had no plans for his creation

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Reflection & Context

This piece was written from the tension between identity, belief, culture, and truth. It speaks to the inner battle that arises when personal feelings, social narratives, and spiritual convictions collide. It explores how confusion can grow when voices are loud, history is re-interpreted, and the search for belonging becomes tangled with the question of who we were created to be.

At its core, this poem is not about condemnation, but about orientation — the longing to understand origin, purpose, and design in a world that often asks us to define ourselves apart from any divine reference point. It wrestles with the pull between self-determination and surrender, between cultural permission and spiritual obedience, between opinion and eternal truth.

It asks what it means to run our race anchored in something unchanging, rather than reshaping ourselves according to shifting winds of approval.

Reflection Prompt

Where do you feel tension between who the world tells you to be and who you were created to be?

What voices shape your understanding of identity the most — and which ones deserve to be examined more closely?

Original Performance

This piece was originally performed as part of the Lips & Poetry series, where spoken word is paired with live lip design. As the poem unfolds, the visual art is created in real time, with the final design revealed at the end—mirroring the way beauty and meaning emerge through surrender.

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