Who am I

Profound reflection

Of metric composition

Verse

With the power to curse

True dimension

Symbolic representation of life

Versification for mics

On paper

No form of abbreviation

For likes or dislikes

It's expression

Yin and yang

Pen to paper

Verbal refrain

Imagine the pad to pen

P**p game

Uncontrolled utterance

Creates needs

Love followed by lust

Proceed

You quote it

Make you wish that you wrote it

Cause you feel it

Live it

Identify

Spoken words

Uplift and fly

Get high

Die

When you try to resist

The love

Of lyrical

Rhythmic, metric, melodic, song-like

Musical

Melodious ballads

Improvisational recitations

Versified sonnets

Bards

Who wants to be hard

When the soft strokes tap my pallet

As my tongue strikes erratic

Strokes erotic

Massaging brain cells with symbiotics

Smoother than cucumber skin tonics

On soft flesh

Of asiatic Mother Earth reflections

And dark complexions

It's the essence

Maya Angelou, Annette Thompson, Marcus Garvey

Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes,

Bob Marley

The Last Poets, The Word Smiths

Albert Ellis

John Crooks, Sista Soldier

Gill Scott-Heron

It strikes a balance

Fantasy and reality

Really

It's the escape

From this world's insanity

Poetry

Who I am is poetry

Who I am is poetry

Who am I

Poetry, poetry, poetry

I'm a slam to Saul Williams

Whisper out of project buildings

Reinforced slang

For all God's children

They call me bebop

Just the opposite of prosaic

Not routine, nor systematic

Not formulaic

Hater being basic

Not commonplace

Nor matter-of-fact

I float in smoke-filled habitats

Hover the blocks

Where all the mad rappers at

I'm Emily Dickinson

On the Gold Coast

Diana Knight

With unknown quotes

A rhythmic whimper

Flowing out slave boats

I make love

One stanza

Expose a heartfelt answer

Unseen skin on midnight panther

Kama Sutra

Reasonings first reactions

On past and coming attractions

I'm passion

Eat it like passion fruit

Nourish your action

For all skin types

Basic powers to ignite the masses

It's shine

Without heavy metal

Fiber optic lashes

Volume levels of equalization

It's the construction of propaganda

Assembling a revolution

Motivational fracture

A fraction of fiction or fantasy

But the reality is

That it is me

Who am I

I'm poetry

Who I am is poetry

Who I am is poetry

Who am I

Poetry, poetry, poetry