New Segment : Poetry Corner

This is a segment where I'll showcase poetry. If you'd like your work to be featured you can hit me up on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/key.saunders or e-mail sincerelyme27@live.com

IF I STAND AT THE TOILET TO PISS...

If I stand at the toilet to piss,

Does that make me a man?

If I sit, does it make me less than?

If I dye my hair blonde, color my eyes blue, and rob

my skin of its natural brown pigmentation

Will that make me Caucasian?

If I don't, am I then African?

If I yell "Hallelujah!" while giving up half of my check,

stomach still queasy from the club

the night before,

Will 'He' save me?

If I, being unbaptized,

die while saving another's life,

Is it just 'to Hell' with me?

If my skin is burned from a fire and barely hanging on 

for dear life,

Does that make me ugly?

If not, then why doesn't anyone see me?

Oh they do stare, but they don't SEE me.

If my body is soft as cotton, my eyes almost 

hypnotizing, and my smile a lasting image 

of pure seductive poetry,

Does that make me beautiful?

If not, then why do you tell me so?

If so, then maybe you'd like to know how I scream

"FUCK THE WORLD!! AND FUCK YOU TOO!!"

Don't try to classify me, don't box me in.

If you do, then you'll find yourself surely disappointed...

I don't want to be you, and I damn sure don't

appreciate YOU trying to teach ME 

how to BE ME.

~Akilah 

BETWEEN MY LEGS

They yearn for the sweetness, in between my thighs.

Giving me gift after gift, telling me lie after lie.

To my surprise, I’ve learned that they’ll go pretty damn far,

Trying to convince me that they love me.

Boosting my pride, saying I could be a famous Star.

All while, kissing me here and kissing me there

Hoping that I’ll lose myself and let them enter inside of me.

Because we’re only Human, with these uncontrollable needs.

Brother please.

I have better things on my mind, like how I don’t need it

But when I want it, I can get it at any damn time.

Because thoughts of you, being with me,

Sexually…constantly consume your head.

Yeah I’ve got the power…right here, between my legs.

~Akilah

~Sincerely,

Me