Poem 12

I Am

The universe hides under my skin
But the secret leaks out
It can’t be contained

Stars in my eyes
heart of gold
smile like a rainbow
Hair like cotton
Black as pitch
Sappodilla coloured skin
sweet inside and out
Ancestors, they fuel my path
The echo
Reminding me there’s still much to do

Royalty
Loyalty

Chained but never broken

I stand because of their strength and virtue

Their Spirituality too a seed that grows within me
With every thought and memory that becomes me
I am renewed with each tick that sounds, never the same, evolution in motion

Sometimes colliding with uncertainty
I pause
I fall I cry
I scream

And when there’s no will to rise
Stories unfold
In ways too surreal to be anything other than signs from corridors of unspoken worlds.