BARE(embrace the flaws)

My faith is limping

And hope dwindling like wind

I’m trying to prove a point

When there’s really no point to be proven

Please tell me;

That I don’t have to regurgitate my essence

And that my worth is worthless if I don’t see it

My gift is plantation

And opinions are just a tuber in the barn

Teach me that I am parable

A riddle with a thousand guesses

Tell me that my bones will remain cemetery

Until I Lazarus them from self laid tomb of doubt

That my dreams will remain locked up in Jars

Until I am ready to savor the taste of them

Tell me that I am change to the status quo

And if I don’t roll away the stone, no one will

But in everything you lecture me

Please teach me to be me

To give pretence a befitting burial

And embrace realism as newborn

Teach me to adore me

Because there’s only one kind of me, me

Bare as I can be

Muse - Uchechukwu Nelson

Photographer - Otome Onoge