Compelling Thoughts: Rhymes Intended to Knock the Dust off the Mind

By Hakim Askia

Enlighten your mind through metaphors, riddles and rhymes
Poetry, short stories and fables, allegorical lines
Rehabilitating the mind, removing the dust from your constant mind state
Angle your mind 360 degrees through the passage of black ink

Take a literary excursion to the isles of introspection and subliminal messages
Unveil the covers of passion
Explore the untold dimensions of honest enlightenment
A straight from the block perspective, then knock the dust off your mind

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465362698

Book preview

Copyright © 2011 by Hakim Askia.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011916056

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4653-6268-1

                   Softcover                                 978-1-4653-6267-4

                   Ebook                                      978-1-4653-6269-8

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This book was printed in the United States of America.

To order additional copies of this book, contact:

Xlibris Corporation

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

[e-mail]

104402

Contents

Acknowledgements

Get Smart

Ode to a Racist

So Much Bullshit

Let’s Have a Drink

A Choice Before Death

Media Hype

Jack Off

Jobless

Tickling Your Mind

It Matters

Hearts

The Word is Out

Write a Poem

Hanging

Walking True Life

It Ain’t Easy

Supp

Street mode

Individual

Tity bar…

Islam is Great

Who’s the controller…

They say…

I’m a student…

The Slicker

On the grind…

They used to call

A Promise Kept

What Do I Do?

Mental Construction

Movie Script

Ruthless

Still Unclear

Crisscross

Thinking

A Businessman’s Dream

Insignificant

Issues

Love of Country

Right to Fight

Races

Still Second Class

Lighten Up

Why Hurt the Babies?

Daddy Was the Best

Busted

Christmas lights…

Freedom Calling

Emotions…

Let me…

Feelings

For M. Ali

Social Harassment

Universal Despair

In Smalltown…

Chief of crime…

Baby…

More disturbing news…

The Godfather of…

I’m taking…

It’s a thin line…

Everybody wants to touch my…

Come my bro…

What’s up black…

Yo! . . .

Yo…

A toast…

What’s in the melting pot…

Growing up…

Author’s Last Words

Acknowledgements

This book is long overdue and I cannot begin to thank

all the people who supported me.

My most sincere appreciation and gratitude to Monika Askia;

My mom, for her direction and guidance;

My sister, my two beautiful daughters,

my son Malik and my loved companion Sabine. Love to my brother, father and the rest of my family.

Rhymes Intended to Knock the Dust Off the Mind

Enlighten your mind through metaphors, riddles and rhymes

Poetry, short stories and fables, allegorical lines

Rehabilitating the mind, removing the dust from your constant mind state

Angle your mind 360 degrees through the passage of black ink

Take a literary excursion to the isles of introspection and subliminal messages

Unveil the covers of passion

Explore the untold dimensions of honest enlightenment

A straight from the block perspective, then knock the dust off your mind

Get Smart

Seems to me if education is the key

Some forty million blacks should be building schools and

Universities instead of paying taxes for penitentiaries

Alleviate poverty and your murder rate by using your brains

Consolidate your wealth, education and experiences you’ve gained

Don’t wait for the state to build your decent schools

Take care of your own youth before the judge,

the handgun on the Taliban

Takes care of them for you

For all that hard earned money you’re taxed

The state and government should be able to keep children off crack

If the government is not as great as they say it is

Well, get an equalizer and hire a black spencer to win back the streets

Praise Allah and respect Jesus

Get smart

104402-ASKI-layout-low.pdf

Ode to a Racist

Been around for centuries

The foolish and feeble minded keep you company

Who the hell are you?

People label you a racist

Supplementing an assessment of yourself

The epitome of stupidity and nothingness

You’re living in a world of multiplicity

Private club, country and city

Most of them you’re not attending

For lack of money and the same opinion often disagree

However, attendance is guaranteed

At the one-complexion, one-dimensional house of divinity

Living in a neighborhood still split separate but equally

Thank goodness for that charade called equal opportunity

You’re the nucleus of racist democracy

Nurtured on hate by thoughtless parents and friends

Thriving on bigotry since the prenatal period

It’s futile to debate the possibilities

Of a congenial human race

Living inside that phobia, the fear of other people

Your main concern is to preserve what rightfully doesn’t belong to you

Third world land and resources

While disregarding the rights of the indigenous

There’s no equality in your life, you see you have a problem

Thinking God gives you the right to be that savage that you are

A preacher, a teacher of racism, subconsciously and consciously

A tradition rich in heritage over the centuries

You’re guilty in the first degree

Who the hell are you?

A sick son of a bitch

Ode to a racist

104402-ASKI-layout-low.pdf

So Much Bullshit

Merrill Lynch is bullish, pardon me

America is bullish

On a piece of rock

A rock called Plymouth 1619

The pilgrims ripped off a continent

To bring my ancestors to

Insured the Indian of a reservation

Gave black people a policy of hard time deprivation

America is bullish

On a piece of rock

Insured everyone of equality and high premiums

Then forgot the black man

Who died in seven wars for a piece of the economical rock

Instead we got rock cocaine, frying black people’s brains

104402-ASKI-layout-low.pdf

Let’s Have a Drink

Alcohol, the social drink consumed by the majors and minors at weddings, anniversaries

Birthday parities and mostly for G.P.

Beer, the poor man’s piss color excuse for bubbly

It’s just alcohol

Don’t get so high strung on a simple treat

So what if a drunk grabs your baby on her cheeks

Alcohol, the liquid devil causing car wrecks, homicides and rapes

Or was it the person who had too much