Poetry by Shakeil Price

Love Is…
By Shakeil Price

Love is the highest form of understanding.
Love is the very essence of man, and his female companion.
Love is eternal. Therefore, Love is immortal.
Love is God.
Love is the nature of Earth.
Love is the force that pushes humans to birth.
Love is the Marriage between Knowledge and Wisdom.
Love is never timid.
Love has tremendous Power.
I’ve seen love make brave men of cowards.
Love has the Power to make broken men, whole again.
Love makes the impossible, possible.
With Love we shall overcome all obstacles.

First and foremost, you must learn to love;
Learn to love yourself; learn to love your people.
When you are one with the creator,
you love all God’s creatures Equal.

Love flows through my body,
intertwined with the blood in my veins.
When love flows through your organs,
They no longer function the same.

What was once dark and dusty,
is now beautifully Black.
That white noise in my ear is like an Eminem rap.
When love flows through the tongue,
Words are sweet to the ear. Love flowing through my eyes,
Now my vision is clear.

When selfless love arises in the heart,
one experiences Peace in their life.
When thoughts of love flood the mind,
then your vibe is delight.
Its two sides to the coin Love;
Hell or Right.

When love is not pure, it is dysfunctional and toxic.
A transactional love is imitation, counterfeit.
It looks like love and it feels like love.
It may cause you to reach a climax,
but it’s not love.

True love will turn your body into an ocean of bliss.
Love is great to receive, though it’s better to give.
On a quest to find love, you shall seek it within
Cold hearted fools have given up,
And claim it doesn’t exist.

Love increases when you endure trials and tribulations.
Love is a nuclear bomb defending the Righteous Nation.
Love consists of, unification and admiration.
Love can blind you, and guide you toward indecent lustful cravings.

Love is your divine nature,
unless you’re a Divine Evil.
Life is useless without love.
Life with love is so meaningful.

Love Peace and Happiness is a trio of ecstasy.
Love is a drug. Love is a medicine.
Love can also be deadly.
So please, be cautious.
Proceed at your own risk.
Love is… What love is.

Love Thy Neighbor
By Shakeil Price

Exiled from society,
cast away to an isolated environment
where a variety of live bodies
“LIVE,” but no longer exist.

Barbwire fences and steel enforced walls
enclose us in.

Hopelessness and despair,
contaminates the air.
It’s hard to inhale here,
in hell’s atmosphere.

Healthcare providers
prescribe us chemical experimentations,
disguised as pharmaceutical medications.
These drugs aren’t suitable for the more civilized population.

They study our behavior
hoping to achieve emasculation.
But sexual deprivation,
creates extreme frustration,
and to release the tension, the violence is escalating.

This industrial complex is a modern-day torture chamber,
slash plantation.
Cause occupations with no compensation
is blatant slave labor.

Underpaid public defenders
cannot save us!
I wonder if the overall public feels any safer,
knowing that someday I shall return… to be thy neighbor.

Speak Freely
By Shakeil Price

Am I free to speak?
May I speak freely about mt constitutional right to freedom of speech?

Since being arrested
Miranda warned me of the consequences, of speaking.
Notified of my right to remain silent,
I’ve decided to exercise it.
Under a felony indictment, it isn’t wise to…
Speak freely if my words can be used against me,
In the court of law.

Knowledge is power, so I plead the Fifth.
Self incrimination is like self mutilation
And since, words in a statement, can get me incarcerated…
Freedom of speech doesn’t seem to exist.

In the past I;ve chosen to hold my tongue with all my might.
Knowing that if I speak truth to power I just might,
Lose my life like,
Malcolm, Martin, Fred Hampton, and Clarence the 13th
“And in the 13th Amendment if don’t; sat that we’re kings/
It say we’re legally slaves if we go to the bing/
They told Kap stand up you want play for a team/
And all his teammates ain’t saying a thing/”
That’s a quote from, “TRAUMA” by MEEK

Who shall inherit the Earth?

Brainwashed since birth, by our overseers who stole us from overseas
If we communicated in our native tongue we were brutally beat.

Those same oppressors severed our Great Mother tongue.
Still can’t speak our own language,
Cause we don’t know where we from.
No longer blind, deaf and dumb.
Whistleblowers exposed injustices and the bells of freedom have been rung.

I got knowledge of self so I am qualified to speak in a dignified manner
And usage of the N-word will offend my grammar.
My Grandma taught me to think before I speak.
Knowledge before Wisdom…
That’s what the poor righteous teach.
Remain silent, remain weak.
The tongue is mightier than the sword.
The truth shall set you free and my word is my bond.

Court Date Rescheduled
By Shakeil Price

How can one remain strong and don’t break

Like a tree limb in a storm when the winds are so great?
Unknown fate,
Court dates replaced and replaced by more court dates
My dome aches.

Earthquakes shake my core.
Inspections revealed that my foundation is secure.
Pure, love is my supporting beam.
Freedom avoiding me like he owes dough.

I hunt for freedom with arrows and bows,
Legal briefs and footnotes.
I am ten toes on freedom heels,
Sickened by my predicament but freedom heals
14 years lurking for this motherfucker freedom ain’t seen em’ still.

Sleeping pills?
No cipher, I’m woke!
Supreme Being so my senses heighten.

Torrential rainfall when the Gods’ crying. Sparks flying like a power outage.
Rerouting my energy internally cause my inner-G is fueled by a solar panel.

That’s how I stand strong through storms, while great walls fall and crumble.
I remain humble, in hostile environments.

Son of Venita!
Son of Poor Righteous Teachers, who walked lands in Egypt.
I endure cause the strength of my ancestry.
These white man’s plans can’t affect me,
Dearly depart or correct me.
Department of Corrections
Respect me, as a human being.
I am the I am! All eye seeing.