We Can Never be Superstars

photo by Angela Rowlings

I am not a superstar

But I’m not afraid to share what I got

I don’t have wings

But I have the words that could make you feel

Like we both be flying

I’m not falling apart right now

But I know what it feels like

To feel like I’ve lost it all

I know how to make you feel like you are the one person I have

left in this world

Because you are

You are what is keeping me beautiful

And I am but a reflection of what you are

I am here to show you

That you don’t have to come prepared with me

You can just adlib

And we can create the dialogue

To perfect the solutions

That will supply the fuel for our chemistry

Not everybody can be Angelina Joli

And not everybody can rock a poem from a page on a stage

for you

Like me.

If you feel compelled to get to know me a little better because you

can’t figure me out just yet

Then it’s probably just the energy in this room that you’re looking

at

And with all due respect

That counts for only but a moment's cost of significance

...................

Just two minutes

You and me alone

My eyes will show you everything

You could have never discovered on your own

And lips can do the rest when you get weary of searching

Tongues will do it best when we get tired of talking

Kama will show us how to effectively lick our wounds

While poetry plays in the backgroud pushing us somewhere past

the moon

When your midnight comes,

You can look for me in the sun

This is where I choose to wait for the Blue orchids to bloom

Sweet and Fearless

Living love like life depends on it...

Because it has to.

poem by Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo