Ofem Ubi

BALLOT CORPSES

May 14 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry

Here I am… Tracing prints of bloodshed, the very blood you swore to protect I have had my hands furnished in blood, the color of your atrocities It seems I am only skillful in ending lives and redirecting ballot boxes But I am done walking the wire And...

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HAVE YOU EVER?

May 12 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry

Have you ever fallen in love? You could literally see your breath in someone else’s hands You’ll feel your ribcage crack open Waiting to retrieve that which was taken But then it felt autumn peace been laid in the case of another And all you had to do...

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iCLOUD

May 11 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry

Her love was iCLOUD And I always guessed denied passkeys I tried date nights Woke her up with poems and sang her to bed with John Legends ‘ALL OF YOU’ But then all of me was never enough I tried forcing my way through her Jericho walls Thinking time would...

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BARE(embrace the flaws)

May 4 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry, #BlackPower, #theEYEandI

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...

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BARE(embrace the flaws)

May 3 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry, #BlackPower, #Bare

In bare I am more of hate than love I see me as miniature golf The world screams unpleasant and depraving Insecurity and I are best friends And I receive lessons of pity But then you are stranger Foreigner of my countenance And you are worth the pity...

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BARE(embrace the flaws)

May 2 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry, #BlackPower, #Bare

Lights… Camera… Action… As I reverse from truth into fiction Trying to fit into the role society scripted for me It’s just exhausting rehearsing lines my tongue is foreign to For I’ve lost my identity trying to re-create myself Misplaced the sound trying...

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BARE(embrace the flaws)

May 1 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry, #BlackPower, #Bare

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...

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BARE(embrace the flaws)

April 30 2017 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #BlackPower, #poetry, #Bare

I was never told to love me I grew up with spikes as skin Hidden under the overlays of mascaras Birthed with the idea that remixing my skin would buy acceptance The green card I always needed So I became caged bird Confined in the bars of self-pretence...

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