Her beauty gave me life when it took my breath
I mean so arresting!
How can I protest?
This must be in jest
But, convince my chest
That houses this heart on its blinded quest
It wants what it wants
What it wants only taunts
And here she is now in front of me all graceful with her flaunts
If only I were bolder
I'm twice her age older
But ****, just to hold her!
I smile a shy blush
Hiding how I crush
Timing is everything
All rewards are just
For the right chemistry I'll wait
... I must...

-Haakim Understanding 9/19/2016

On the back of a dragonfly
Truly fast and furious
Stop and hover for awhile
To contemplate the curious
Maybe race some bees
Or bully some mosquitoes
Tailgate an eagle
Just to see where he goes
I might hang out with butterflies
They never seem to worry much
I notice when they're being chased
They're never ever in a rush
I'll dart around some children's heads
Just to make them try to touch
Hear them laugh and giggle
My favorite sound gives me a rush
Spring is springing
And all is good
Zipping in and out the woods
This is nature
It's my hood
Won't you visit if you could?


Haakim Understanding... © 2017

Story of a brother always love bitten
Perpetually smitten
Friend zone trippin
Keeps his head up and never caught slippin
Connection so strong he had to pull away
Timing too wrong. Today is not the day.
Table for two with one place setting
Smiling with envy
At couples love letting
World's cold
80 degrees hot
Buying kids icees from the truck down the block
Just to see joy by some kind of means
Instead of reading sisters declarations from blaring memes
Social media killed the dating scene
People hurt themselves
******* on some theme
Makes a man scream
Silent on his deen
Silent screaming makes the shakes
Artificial stimulation intervenes
Hit the brakes
Here come the snakes
Swivel hips and painted face
Band aid love
Won't even distract
No alchemy kit could bring
that chemistry back


© Haakim Understanding 2017

Grief makes you want to blend in with darkness in mindless fixation
Even welcome the evacuation
of feeling
'cause that too is sensation
Thoughts and images reeling
Stewing in a cauldron of frustration
This ...
...This ...
This...
Just ain't right.
This ain't just, right?
The universe got it wrong this time
Universe - all just is
this quiz
WHY???
WHY???
That eternal query
Whose answer stays buried
Germinating confusion
In flashes of illusion
Nay but it is...
Real conclusion.
We lose some
We had some
Wasn't yours, um
Give it back
Time is up.
Done.
End of track.
Run
Run those tears that trapped in
Those fears
Run those tracks that trace
All the years
That are no more.
Those tears that bore
Through ducts of memories
Holed up in store
Eroding the core of gladness
Fueling flames of madness
This grief
I have
Just let me blend in with this darkness .. .


-Haakim Understanding 9/2016

That which I give my attention will manifest itself in its own time…

There are times when intentions don’t gel with time

Times when time permits not

When will is slow to meet passion and action fails to suffice

Then there are times when too much is too soon and too little too late

As destiny wilts at the laughter of fate when the thought is past its due date

When the goal and intention is pure and honorable

Yet the clock mocks
making character vulnerable

Time is the essence of make or break of promise in word

Rise to that verb that bonds you to the most valuable of virtues

Be it swift or steady mind not

Stick to the script and don’t stop

Til it is shown and proven

Concious and guilt of inability is mine enemy

We do what we can so don’t ask more of me

© Haakim Understanding 2016

Freedom freed them
But didnt free dumb
A free dome is not known
In this home where the buffalo moaned
The other man roamed
Renamed every stone
O-press tho change-o
Makin new clones
Time is on loan
Heavy is the tone
Freedom stands alone

Haakim U. Allah © 2018

All I really am sure of about love is that love loves not...

If I go a day without thinking of you
my nights are consumed with visions of you

those eyes that provoke fantasy,
your soul's windows burn right through me.

The shape of your face,
curve of your smile...

the way you put your hair in that whimsical style...

I left too soon.

I knew it then.

I had to prove to myself you were right,
with the hopes you were wrong.

This experiment has gone  too long.

Keeping a distance cause I want to be closer,

Let me grow on you
show you a thing or two
Maybe you can show me something new.

Open enough to let you be my teacher
you'll have my full attention
fascinating creature.

Each day should be different as I look at you with a new eye.

Be a stranger to me
That I can always be mezmerized

be my constant new discovery while my mind flies

on flights of fancy

Mentally painting a new fantasy
of you smiling that smile when you look at me...



(C) 2017 Haakim U. Allah...

Irony and Karma,
Sadistic twins of fate
All up in your face
After all the moves you had to make

Just when victory looms
POP!
Lit cigarette to your balloon...

Twin bullies slap boxin at the end of the tunnel
Play fightin in the light at the tip of the funnel
Waiting for you as you spiral down about to be pummeled

Irony dodgin blows
But you keep swinging
Karma half Laughin
Half singing
"MERRY GO ROUN' N ROUN'..."
Like a demented AL B Sure

You tryina even the score
Not enough energy in store

"I need a second wind" you implore
Blood sweat and tears bubble in your core
Gittin' back on your feet is a struggle- a chore

"I've been on this Street before " you hear yourself murmur
Feeling weak and sore
On your hands and knees
Body bruised, nerves raw

Spit out teeth, a chunk of skin from your lip
Tryina see but your eyes are slits

Call Irony a punk
Karma a btch
They got this round
But you know this ain't it
They can't make you give up
Don't back down
Not a bit
This is life
Ha ha
I love this sht


Haakim Understanding (C) 2017

Feelin' those **** curves
Enjoying her heft against me,
Rubbin' my hands along her neck
Pullin' strangs manipulating every utterance
Warm tones when I make her moan
Brightness defying her bottom
Keeping that **** tight when I pop!  Pop! Pop it!
Slappin' n slammin' in the pocket
She won't fight
In fact it's what she likes
It's what I love about her
I share in her delight
We can go on for hours on into the night
Funkin up the place
The **** that we be doin' be scrunchin' up my face
We catch a groove in our own space
Yeah, it gets ******* when I'm playing my bass...


Haakim Understanding © 1/2017

Transference of energy
Civilized from synergy
Resisting descendancy
Into mass lunacy
Ballance is dependency
On each other equally
Step inside to see clearly
Mind's eye ascendency...

© 2017 Haakim Understanding...

Ever humble
***** on my square
Keeping perspective
Always aware
Time on a tear
Drag racing
Dragging along
Light pacing
Centrifugal stillness
Stuck in the realness
And shock of it all
Orbit of this ball
The gravity
The gravity
It's grabbin me
So glad to be
Grounded by faint calls of trajectory
There's a plan but there's no directory
Horizon the point at the edge of the fall
The vastness and range
Still kinda strange
It's what's so humbling
Fall back
Re arrange...

© Haakim Understanding 2017...

As she moves to the rhythm of my pulsating rays
Playfully teasing under my gaze
Intoxicating hills, mountains, ripples and waves
Covered by 3/4 ths overlays
The mental visual plays.
Finger lumens caress and rove
Flick and probe
tickle and pinch
Patiently exploring every square inch.
A galactic minx
Bringing me to brinks
Prospecting her nectar for energy drinks
Spin at a terrific speed changeable and swift indeed
her winds will cut in a storm
Yet the right currents keep her warm
Spinning in orbit at 93 still in full form
To know the cipher and understand the God
ahm smiling at her curves.
**** it’s hard
could shatter light into shards
Transforming crystals to stars
must dip in her dew
It’s mountin’ and this fountain
bout to spit atomic stew
nucleatin’ and hydratin’
keepin up with her gyratin’
vibratin’, shakin’ and quakin’
Osiris’ rod cleavin’ into her sod
spewin’ ray seed in clods
a spectrum of dust
It’s a must to keep her satient with love, no lust…

– Haakim Understanding

It's that third chakra.
That center of your chest that vibrates
Makes or breaks your mettle
That shyt that won't let you settle
Won't allow you to stagnate
Solar plexus
Fired up kettle
Pushes and drives you
To work that talent
Find that balance
Meet that challenge
Black coal heart burns but shines with the heat
The sun in you
The rays of hue
Insistent beat
Anxious but mellow
Color me yellow
Bright and warm
Flush with energy
Brewing storm
World on alert
Stars are aligned
Even losers get lucky sometimes
Turning lemons to limes
Popping wheelies on the middle line
Bricks in the road turned yellow
About time
Um, about that line
The black heart one
The balance will come
Just keep in mind
Some gold rocks start out black
They are just unrefined
Yellow is the chakra of success,
You'll get there in time
Don't let the glitter
**** with your mind
Go ahead and plant that seed
And don't get it twisted
You might have to give up on what you want In order to get what you need...


Haakim Understanding... 3/11/17 (C)