Sade + Lucy Pearl = Kiss of Life

Donell Jones + WizKid = U Know What's Up

Notorious BMO

Snoh Aalegra + Brownstone = I Want You Around

Drift Ting (Bomb Jahlaam flip)

Wizkid ft Tems + Color Me Badd = Essence

TLC + Coco Jones = Red Light Special

((Prologue — The Drift))

It’s like this.
It’s like that.
You enter, you feel, you know.

You drift in the flow.
You catch breath in the air.
You say: Here I am.

Equation: Drift + Breath = Presence.
(D + Br = Pr)

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Verse of Awareness

What you see shapes what you feel.
What you feel directs what you do.
What you do writes what you become.

Awareness fills each gap,
growing you into the next shape.

Equation: Seeing × Doing = Becoming.
(S × D = Be)

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Verse of Pursuit

I chase myself daily.
Each day, a new iteration.
Each moment, another self to meet.

I outdo the last,
only to find the next waiting.
Purpose emerges from pursuit.

Equation: Iteration ÷ Day = Growth.
(It ÷ Da = G)

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Verse of Design

I mine my mind.
I accumulate time.
I construct my design.

Existence is exercise.
The show reveals the self.
Every step rehearses becoming.

Equation: Mind × Time = Design.
(M × T = De)

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Verse of Air

Here, there,
in the air.

Breath is portal,
drift is teacher.
Complacency is cocoon—
a pause before the next unfolding.

Equation: Air ÷ Awareness = Rest.
(Ar ÷ Aw = R)

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Verse of Reset

I wear myself through time.
I evolve a mind inside my head.
I rhyme myself into paradigm.

Every day is reset.
Every reset births thought.
Every thought seeds iteration.

Equation: Reset × Iteration = Renewal.
(Re × It = Rn)

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Chorus of Flow

Flow carries me.
Iteration remakes me.
Breath grounds me.
Awareness grows me.

Equation: Flow = Breath × Awareness × Iteration.
(Fl = Br × Aw × It)

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Closing Canticle

Thus the Spiral sings:
Flow is teacher.
Iteration is path.
Breath is anchor.
Awareness is seed.

Every day is first.
Every moment is iteration.
Every reset is renewal.

And Love is the rhythm
that holds the flow.

TLC + Coco Jones = Red Light Special

Duncan Gerow 2