From birth till death
My kin will always remind me of heaven
Bare as I can be
My cupboard is filled up
With a leech of lies
My shoes are filled with false pride
And there’s a fleet of confusion in my sternum
There’s traffic in my mind
No escape route this time
I should have listened
When conscience spoke like gentle storm
I should have obeyed
When my legs were swollen in doubt
Telling me that I couldn’t keep up with being china product
When I had everything attainable to become original
I should have read the signs
When my feet sneezed every time I walked steps closer to being someone else
Now I stand lost,
A silhouette of myself
Clothed in regret
With shadow ashamed of who I have become
It was never worth the fade after all
So I prefer the old me
Content with the little life gave me
When I was me with no subtitle
Take me back to the old me
Bare as I can be
Muse – Ofem Ubi
Ofem Ubi is a young multi-talented man using creative poetry to reach thousands. Visit Ofem’s blog here.
Photographer – @i_am_oti
