it’s sunset
and the birds
are flying
across the sky
singing the songs
and living the dreams
© Hudson Biko
it’s sunset
and the birds
are flying
across the sky
singing the songs
and living the dreams
© Hudson Biko
Most times when we step onto a path we know where it’s going to lead. When we can’t see where that is we find comfort in the footprints that precede us. And when its bleakest to see we listen for the voices that have left their remnants along the way in the hope that they guide us.
At times, our own paths look nothing like that.
They’re more like driving on roads with no roads signs to unknown destinations. They’re more like finding comfort in the virtues of our own expectations. They’re more like listening to the voices of those that have done it before in the hope that we might one day.
They mostly sound like “Rome wasn’t built in a day” or “Good things come to those who wait” – or some quote behind some waterfall on Instagram.
And there’s times when we internalize those voices or see those destinations and play them out in our heads in the hope that they’ll become our reality – and maybe there’s times when they make that road slightly more bearable.
But sometimes we wake up and realize that we don’t want to build Rome. That we just want to finish that degree. Or get that promotion. Or get to that thing that shouldn’t take as long as it is.
And in those moments we want something to make that path smoother.
We want to remove the rocks, the pebbles and the dirt.
Often its because we think that those impurities on our path are deflections from our own direction. We look at them like obstacles to the place we want to go to.
We often don’t think of paths as compilations of impurities. Of obstacles overcome time and time again.
And even though it might have taken a while, they were moulded by their own to process to become what they are today.
And that’s not a bad thing.
© Hudson Biko
Photograph: Warren Wong
Previously published by Thought Catalog at www.thoughtcatalog.com.
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