The Loner (POEM)

I have been two people my whole life

One I show the world and the other I keep to myself

For only I can understand her

She is this incredible human being that is self sufficient and assured

She had no one but her to elevate and affirm her

With these four arms and legs I walked and lived

With only split seconds to decide whom I will show

The loner in me just loves that solitude that life has offered

But the other sometimes just craves that simple caress from another

As my other face just cringes at the other of what I could let go

An entire universe of mine constructed by my only words and actions

That stands on the hinges of my every stumbling steps

Reaching out to a certain life means to erase half of me

I want both. The ecstasy of companionship and the amazing solo ride

I held back to what everybody called fulfillment

For I know not what my heart could prompt me to do

I am a loner and fate was never generous to show me what I was missing out

And so, I took the wheel and drove into the sun set

It is childish to put a period on what The Omni never deemed it to be

But for my sake I chose her, for she is what I have ever known

She is the only I knew who could handle and bare

For people only had opinions but she had consolation

I am sorry to the Better that could have smiled to someone else

But instead chose to have this conversation with herself

My apologies, Mr. no one that I am depriving you of a skipping heart

I am selfish and learned the hard way to be

I am on the road now

Towards what? I don’t know, but alone I am certain

I chose the shore than the ever-growing horizon

Every day is a daily reminder of that one question… if I chose right?

But I can only be certain that for now, I chose me.

By UBB

A Laugh With The Elephant (POEM)

You see this elephant

It’s all you see, right

It fills your room

Its trumpet wrapped around your neck

That You can’t breathe

Its hooves make the noise of your own demise

That big elephant that got bigger with each lie

So big, it reminds you of how small you are everyday

That elephant that doesn’t want you dead

But wants you alive to suffer more

Can I tell you that you shall laugh with it someday?

Over a cup coffee, you shall look back to that old enemy

That became a friend

You shall know that elephant my dear friend, wanted you to live

More than the living enemy

You shall raise your glasses together, for that elephant that turned mouse.

UBB

Beautiful Things End (Poem)

Beautiful things end

I have always believed

That all things last

That they go on against all odds

They flourish and bloom

But I grew up to find out they end as well

I longed for a beginning, afraid of it’s end

And so. I damned it all to hell

What’s the point of starting to have it all end?

That universal punishment that nothing lasts forever

Had myself holding back, for what leaves goes with a piece of you.

That vacant space reminds you of what can’t be taken back

But I reached a place to see

What truly takes that place

My eyes to finally see, it was never empty

I was just broken, too broken to see I was a new person

Acknowledging my gain meant to accept what was forever gone

But then new things grew unnoticed and unwanted

That treasure called growth got buried

And now I find myself searching

Looking for what I should have called mine

Digging all over the place and pleading within that isn’t lost

That it waited for me to turn around

To realize that what I wanted has been with me all along

Poem By UBB

Model: Keza Fiona