Consciousness
sinking
sinking
sinking
sank
blissfully
underneath blankets
and blank eyes
thirsting for sovereignty
after living
five feet above ground
in worlds
filled by empty words
and broken ideality
Subconsciousness
collapsing
as
vibrations
forge their
way in pulses
through
still air
Reality
slowly brought
to actuality
Erasing
fragments
of brief
escape
created
prior to
7.34 am
–
Gates opened
Eyes blank
Floating
© Hudson Biko
The room was dark.
Sweat poured
from pores
to heart
to skin
to sheets
that held
houses drowning
in pools
of fear
collected from
racing hearts
held stagnant
and hurt
from abandoned
identities
and created
fallacies
of hope
As i watched those
that dared to leave
so they could live
run and
run and
run
in to unlit rooms
of 5.31 AM
–
Morning
© Hudson Biko
Photograph by Alieza Rizvie
You came through
dormant minds
that gave way
to realities
nonexistent
In the existence
of everything
we weren’t
And you stared
through beating hearts
that played out to spurts
of light
amongst eternities
of darkness
And I played out to
7.17 AM
–
Morning
© Hudson Biko
Photograph: Allef Vinicius
hudson biko 