Love Poem: About Me
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Written by: Shakeera Johnson

About Me

My name is Shakeera
But I prefer keekee or keera
I’m sixteen years old
I’m young but I feel old
So many hardships
And bad relationships
People look at me
And judge by what they see
People don’t like me
But they don’t know me
Thinking of me as a hoe
But they just don’t know
Struggling with a sex addiction
Bringing upon my life affliction
Experiencing the streets and prostitution
Ending up with three diseases
And a pain that never ceases
Being rushed to get surgery done
Because I had a cyst the size of a plum
I cried and screamed
Because this wasn’t a dream
Lucky me, they were all curable
But now I’m infertile
My pain is so deep
That it’s hard to fall asleep
Had an eating disorder and did starvation
Along with my parents help and persuasion
Believing when they said I was fat
All I could think of was that
Crying until my eyes turned red
Because I just wanted to be dead
I feel so alone
And like I don’t belong
I have no one to love me
And no one for me to love back
This is all for now
But wait until I come back
I’ll have something that makes your heart clap