THE FOLLOWING POEM WAS SELECTED IN WINGWORD POETRY PRIZE 2023 LONGLIST.
Join me right here
And together we'll travel
To a world we belive in
One that is not all we see
Let us behold together
A world that is true
See it with our hearts,
Our minds and our souls
A world that is cruel
But beautiful and wild
Devastating and daunting
Yet filled with color
The green of the trees
The red of the blood
The blue of the oceans
And the gray of our lives
In a world of our own, we remain
Confined in our minds
Wasting away till we suffocate
Detached from the world outside
Isolated in our thoughts
We do not see
The beauty of the world
Unparalleled and simple
When your too deep to realize
That the world is not all
What our mind or our heart
Insists that it is
Take a breath and stop
Stand still and stoic
Look around, observe
And open your eyes to see