CROSS WORDS (POEM)

I expressed myself

And all you saw were my lips moving

Never the words that came out

I hugged you

I held your hand

And all that remains now is the space

That none of us want to cross over

I hold no grudge

Just that my truth was never meant for a human soul

I'm back where I began

On a piece of paper writing

For that is when my words are naked and bare

My world is awake now

Taking in that I'm different now

But still who I used to be

For who I'm inside can come out now

With no fear that I will give myself secondhand clothes

That my mind is lit

With the realization that my arm will always stretch out

For that invisible someone

For I can't help but see them

I never asked for it

For that aching need for inclusivity

That my steps will always halt midway...

For that plead

Who I'm now hurts you

And who you're now is but a distant land

Poetry is how loud I'm and can be

For my verbality is my silence

My whole life was a loud voice

And that is how you only want to hear me

And so this finality was inevitable

Back to my cross words now

as their complexity is my comfort

UBB