Who am I????

I am the positivity that makes you strong

I am the negativity that becomes impossible for you to overcome

I am the purple haze that Henderix so loved

I am the spoon of the feigns that can't get enough

I am that bubble – that thizzle - that bump

I am the flame that lights your blaze

That black light invaded by neon that leaves you in a daze

I am preeminent beauty

My beauty is enough to beat you into submission

I am the inventor of all emotion

The master of expression

I am the Queen of both good and evil

I'll have more than enough

But I'll still take yours then leave you

I am the beginning that has no end

While you're in comfort on your knees

I am what stands

Forever in thought

Always in motion

I am Shintya

Separation from within

I keep ignorance alive and destroy the knowledge instilled

I am continuous struggle

The Almighty Power Structure

No matter how long you scream for your so called equality

I choose not to hear you

The fire hose

Tear gas

And that pack of German Shepherds?

Yea – that was me too

I am those dismembered, gutted, raped and maimed

I am the tree the noose and the body

I am the black & white picture of his-story saved

I am the message in living color that this picture made

I am the mis-education that has kept you trapped

I am those chains

Whether it's the gold you wear around your neck now

Or the tin that strangled you in your bondage days

I am the oppressed and the oppressor

The controller of your subconscious

I am dominion over all

I am above and byond all royalty

You are blessed

I am the blessing

I am what's right

Working first from the inside

I am the lover of myself and of my people

I am the definition of unity

The strength of my community

I am the essence of what all strive for

I am the daughter of Huey and Cleaver

For the panther is the mother from which I was born

I am the ignorant and the conscious

I am a visionary with blinded eyes

I am the truth of the innocent

The mask of the deceit

I am the patience of the wise

I am the melody of the Earth

The voice of the Wind

The harmony created within Fire

I am everything that has destroyed my community

I am what it takes to keep my community alive