I spent a night watching skyscrapers,
Some say they rise in a thousand days or more,
I watch through my fingers their ascension to the stars,
And my inner eyes found light.
Some say, we have 5,000 weeks or more
to sketch our legacies.
Stories stacked one by one,
dreams built floor by floor
When you …are building a skyscraper, there is magic in time.
(Music)
From time immemorial we wasted time,
Not seeing beyond the nose of the present,
swiftly, today joins history in the class of yesterday.
Life is arranged in time,
Purpose is planned out from time.
Impact is measured by time invested in what matters most,
Time: 24 hours in a day, tick- tock,
Time: 60 minutes an hour, tick tock
Time is the currency of life’s transactions.
Engineers, we are stewards of this gift of time
In concrete and steel we build,
in designs and devotion we build lives
we say ‘let there be light’ and wire solutions into existence
what we do with time is the mandate to ELEVATE
to have dominion is the original intention
for life, your life is not a game of dominoes
falling.
(Music)
I spent a night watching skyscrapers
and I -saw- you! You in the skyline,
You, resplendent. Everything you were knitted for,
even the contours in your design glowed majestically
See, many things we used to label insanity are now realities
Fears we once whispered, now walk in the light,
The possibilities you once imagined, now shine as guiding stars.
Stars, the future sneaks on you in a blink,
Your ELEVATION is layered like bricks
A balm that works from the root up
It’s root healing at its zenith!
Elevate your view, replace the noise with wisdom
love your mind enough to heal yesterday’s pain
Get out of bed with procrastination
Let’s rewrite this romance with stagnation
For that is where titans fall
(Music)
Technology is planning years ahead
As I speak, a little boy is developing an app
That could make your business old news
We, are mining data to redefine strategies
Medicine is looking decades ahead
As I speak, a young girl is finding the cure to cancer
But what about the cancer of complacency eating your evolution?
What about the refusal to adopt new ways of thinking and being?
While machines now speak our language and solve calculus,
Can we read between the lines and let our humanity guide our innovations?
Yet we, are too satisfied with our daily bread
In our comfort zone, it’s whatever will be will be
Que Sera, Sera,
We forget to be like the father, creating what will be
And in this work of rebuilding, hope alone is an illusion
Stop begging for crumbs from life and grab the chunky reins of purpose.
The wise men of this age told you a lie,
Fragile ground is not the place to build
Your highest calling would demand an ELEVATION
So do not call Conspiracy what they call conspiracy
Self cannot fully define something bigger than itself
We are miracles in the skyline of life.
Befriend the courage to color outside the lines
Those who live in bubbles of self-manufactured truths
Blinded by shadowed thoughts and strayed emotions
Build no skyscrapers.
They’ll meet tomorrow with regrets,
“Sorry,” dear future, for not seeing the light.
Sorry we were weak and did not reach for the peak
we did NOT realize time was our currency,
no we didn’t invest in something bigger than us
we gave intentionality a side eye.
Another side eye at the child on the street
and the brewing storm in my neighbor’s stomach,
till it became a war
We bid time, did time in self impose jails of limitations
Societal correctional facilities screaming ‘Conform!
Who are you to be different?’
We forget that being different is Part of our DNA,
a mark of courage and authenticity
And Tick tock, time is gone!
Here is a question for you:
what will you build with life if you ELEVATE?
(pause)
See, You and I are flame bearers,
Ordinary people with a capacity for the extraordinary
But then, as logical people too,
We’re ever in love with the familiar
Resistant to change, Afraid to risk writing a new story,
watching, watching skyscrapers like they are magical
When you could be a skyscraper on the horizon of your life
So When you hear this messenger calling you
to awaken to timeless wisdom,
It’s a call for you to say “yes” and reclaim your voice
To build those dreams that will outlive you
Be a ripple of legacy, shaping many tomorrows
Tick tock, time wasted is destiny destroyed.
Now Elevate, set your sights on higher grounds
Expand globally, let your reach transcend your backyard.
Rise with your weapons and gifts
This skyscraping through time…
is a work of deep and loving devotion
done on life’s battlefield.
And when my name is long forgotten, and my bones turned to rubble
Let history mark today
That a prophetic poet told you
You and you, you’ve got destiny with your name on it.
(MUSIC TWICE)
