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