I am EDEN to An Eve (POEM)

I was once a trail of trees that graced God’s Garden.

I was a womb to carry his first creation.

I was The Forbidden Tree.

I was woman’s first friend.

I was there when all that could be done was to be cast away.

I was there when The Son came forth as a lamb for a sacrifice.

I was there, Eve in all your forms.

When you were black and inferiority was your second skin.

When you were Arabic and to hold a book was a grave sin.

When you were Chinese, and the shape of your eyes is all people could see

I was there when you were white, and yet that was never enough.

I walked with you, when to carry a savior came as a blasphemy to those you called family.

I was the third being when Elizabeth understood the assignment.

I saw your continuous hustle to reach out to a God that could only see your sins.

I was more than A Garden; I was I am.

I was the history that reminded you how short you fall.

And the present that came in ten ways.

And a future that never needed your works for redemption to come your way.

Eve, I was never who you had and lost.

I was who you were and who you were always meant to be.

A Garden of Grace.

For pain to never be what accompanies the birth of your off springs.

To comprehend that The Omnipresent never turned from you but came for you.

To live with the knowledge that you are no longer at the mercy of fate.

That life will be taking the color of a woman whose aware of Her God.

That Hell’s gates are but an entrance to a world that fears what you have.

Woman, it was never I and you. It is Us for The Kingdom.

Don’t live in the ignorance that you took from me; you took from yourself.

For The Creator had blessed you not to have but to BE.

The Potter created you as clay to carry his entity.

To be an extension of himself.

I see you, Eve.

Your journey to return home, but know that it’s not place to come back to;

But a realm that dwells in you now.

I was the womb that nurtured you.

And now I am wisdom that whispers in your ear.

The trinity called you Mother once.

So, humanity could finally see beyond the veil.

My letter to You Eve,

Is to come forth with the good news, that from your own lips the world found out

of the resurrection of The Son.

Through out history, Tales of your conquer and defeat resonates

Paving the way for The Five of YOU to be written in that Ancient Holy Book,

As Ancestors to A Great Descendant

Those whom were called A Deceiver,

An Adulteress

A Gentile

A Traitor

A virgin

And God simply called you a HELPER.

By UBB

For all women out there.

Finding Each Other (POEM)

I hear that word so many times in my head

Engraved in my mind from all my teenage fantasies

I still hear it, even older as it goes deeper

To remind me that realities are never from the far-fetched

And so, I will say truly that I IWISH

Not for a prince in shining armor

Not for a king to crown Queen

And never for a solution to all my problems

I just want us to find each other

Not because we got nothing else

Not because our Africans moms are reminding us that the clock is ticking

I want us to find each other in the dark as it would be in the light

I don’t want loneliness to throw me in your arms

I pray you never come to me just because I am another option on the list

I want us to find each other, in that traffic morning running to work,

Hurrying on with our lives like we have got something to prove.

I want you to look at me like I am just another face and

yet my eyes beseech you not to look away.

For that unexpected normal Monday to turn into a rich story to tell the kids.

That we weren’t looking and yet we saw.

I don’t want to be with you just because I am 25 and you are another milestone to achieve

I don’t want to love you just because everything tells me to. NO!

I want to want you because that’s all there is.

I want to give you my heart even if everything in our lives feels wrong

For I want that in the end that You be that thing that feels right.

For you are not a resolution, but my absolution.

I want to love your normal and ride your hectic.

I want to feel that arm around my waist in that crowded room and know that is YOU.

I want us to find each other

Not because there is marriage next but love forever

Find me, at my worst day maybe; no makeup and running off to catch a bus

For life gives no breaks to me. As I may miss the sight of you.

Love me, not because I am beautiful and it shall feel good to stand by your side.

But because there is something about me that tells you that I can fall by your side.

I don’t want the normal rules to apply.

Just because we grew up and hustled and now walking down the aisle is what's next.

For commitment isn’t what grows but us to each other.

Find me and keep me for God’s sake!

For I am that treasure you stumble upon once.

For I am that restless wind that erases the steps for you to never find your way to me

Keep me. For my eyes can only seek you in all that you love

Your favorite color. Your favorite place. Your favorite movie.

I will love all of you;

For every piece of you in my hands feels as heavy.

By UBB

I resent...You (POEM)

I resent all that you stand for

I resent that’s what drew me to you in the first place

I resent that hating you is getting easier by the day

For my sermon to choose you seems hypocritical

I resent that I feel small to a bigger sight of you

I resent all these mixed up feelings that get me stuck in the headlights

I am not sorry; I just want you gone

If you feel that way, go the other way and let’s never meet at any crossroads

No choice should ever be birthed from this and yet the human that I am wants to reject you before you do it to me.

I despise what this is doing to me, and should just let go

But for what all that I feel can’t take away that it is still you

You built a wall and I made it permanent

Together we added bricks to cement that old grudge

For each wants to win at this battle of holding back

There is a huge lump in my throat that I am winning

It’s crazy that what led to this was just that an unspoken disappointment

I am no judge or jury but I can see the verdict that lies between us

That we are ending…

That what we could be no longer holds that trophy

We are turning into the walking dead that smells any blood as long it ain’t us

I know I will find us at any stage, shouting the loudest

Advising the multitudes for what we can never tell each other in that dark room

We turned black and blue from all that silent backlash

I can’t seem to move towards you anymore

We can’t seem to find each other in the light

For what shines brighter is we ain’t enough anymore

That truth is a consolation to me, an ointment to a wound that I carried for so long

That I no longer have to try

That loving you was becoming a loss

That gnawed on that person that once a cared

I wonder if my new found freedom means that I am that exception to a rule

That old skeleton finally out

For a reality check that I wasn’t haunted

For I was the ghost.

By UBB