A meeting with destiny??
The time had come- i wanted more from the game. The daydreams had started- my dreams and thoughts were filled with you. Was this real? Is this not the same person i know or didn’t i know him well?
I wanted to meet you; you wanted to meet me to check my authencity as well.
The time was here...At the last moment i backed out i couldn’t keep up with the deception again. it was time to make a choice; reveal it all, break away or keep my longing to myself and just be a buddy to you....
Then you arrived...I played it cool, couldn’t show i was the one you wrote to of your passions, the one you composed a poem telling your longing for me. No way not yet!!!
I showed up as me without the pretensions of mystery but to my surprise you still liked me...
Each moment spent with you was a revelation. I could fill a book with the things i came to like about you-the cute smile, the non-defeatist attitude, the optimism, the wisdom, the kindness, and so much more no wonder you had all those ladies in a flutter..Be careful my poet, don’t meet a bad girl o she just might lock you up!!!
Without the mystery or enticing words, closeness was being formed.......It was time.
I told............
Signed: Mystery
Friday, July 18, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Letters to my Poet -Series 1
In subsequent weeks i will publish a letter out of a series titled letters to a poet.
This is an unburdening of my soul, an outlet to express myself and declare my affection.
It was just a game...........or so i thought!!!
It started as a game-
I thought you had studied me so well that you could identify me in a crowd without even seeing me.So, to hear my voice and not recognise it was a blow to my ego and i decided to play a trick on you.
Alas you had other plans for me unknowingly.
You taunted, i reciprocated and so the texting war began.....
To the mystery lady you thought was “unknown” you revealed yourself- much more than i had ever known. You spoke of your search for love and despair, your achievements and loneliness and with each message i could feel myself sinking deeper and deeper...
You were just like me.........
I found myself looking forward to a message from you-it was one of the highlights of my day.
I was impressed with your wit, admired your achievements and was wowed by your talents.
I became adept in the role of the mystery lady and could sense your longing for the mysterious one with each message.
That was not the plan!!!!It was meant to be a trick, i would tease you about it later and we would laugh over it but i was intrigued. You unburdened yourself with no pretensions and i wondered if it was wise to reveal myself or continue to hide behind the cloak of mystery for a while...........
It makes me wonder -we reveal so much of ourselves when we think nobody is watching. An author once said we all have different faces, one we reveal to all and the other when we are alone.
It was a dilemma that i left to time.
Without knowing you i loved you but now I know you I cherish you-----
Signed: Moi
This is an unburdening of my soul, an outlet to express myself and declare my affection.
It was just a game...........or so i thought!!!
It started as a game-
I thought you had studied me so well that you could identify me in a crowd without even seeing me.So, to hear my voice and not recognise it was a blow to my ego and i decided to play a trick on you.
Alas you had other plans for me unknowingly.
You taunted, i reciprocated and so the texting war began.....
To the mystery lady you thought was “unknown” you revealed yourself- much more than i had ever known. You spoke of your search for love and despair, your achievements and loneliness and with each message i could feel myself sinking deeper and deeper...
You were just like me.........
I found myself looking forward to a message from you-it was one of the highlights of my day.
I was impressed with your wit, admired your achievements and was wowed by your talents.
I became adept in the role of the mystery lady and could sense your longing for the mysterious one with each message.
That was not the plan!!!!It was meant to be a trick, i would tease you about it later and we would laugh over it but i was intrigued. You unburdened yourself with no pretensions and i wondered if it was wise to reveal myself or continue to hide behind the cloak of mystery for a while...........
It makes me wonder -we reveal so much of ourselves when we think nobody is watching. An author once said we all have different faces, one we reveal to all and the other when we are alone.
It was a dilemma that i left to time.
Without knowing you i loved you but now I know you I cherish you-----
Signed: Moi
LABELS
There are sayings like “first impressions make a lasting impression” “Dress the way you want to be addressed”....
I refuse to accept those sayings.
We have taken such sayings to heart such that if someone does not fulfill your expectations at the first instance they are dismissed as being unworthy of your time, effort as the case may be...
Hes an Ijebu man-therefore he must be stingy
She doesn’t wear earrings-oh she must be one of those holier than thou people
He’s quiet-he’s a green snake, must be very vindictive
He looks gentle-he must be a pushover
These are labels we have placed on people just by meeting them once.
Do you give time to know the persons philosophies, likes dislikes, values, background,....of course not. I just need to know where you’re from, what u’re wearing to put you in a category......
So much has been lost because of this.
I once had a friend who told me that just by looking at me he knows i cant do anything spontaneously or something simple as scream my lungs out.Why did he make such a statement?
He felt i looked too cool to do that. Has he seen me in a situation that requires me to scream? No he just labelled me and put me in the category “too cool to scream”.
Alas for him i went (spontaneously) for auditions to a TV show and got invited- he was shocked to see me on TV doing stuff he felt i couldn’t do and the next day he told me i had been pretending all along. Imagine the insult....... Was tempted to scream just for good measure and walked away—good riddance. Watch out, you just might see me doing the “twist” on a table.
Its my opinion that these labels we put on people contributes to some of the problems in the world today-where all Muslims are seen as fanatics, in the US any one looking even Arabic is watched with the suspicion of being a terrorist or closer home, people from Warri are seen as loud uncouth people and we have already put up a defence without giving them a chance.
The behaviour of one person has made the same brush to be used in painting those alike in tribe,religion,attitude; as if the other person does not have an identity of his own.
We are all unique beings and the attitude of one does not define the rest of us...
I think it’s all crap, a way for us to feel better than the other “i’m not like him o “ ,“i’m different “Oh you blasphemer “ have u removed the log from your own eye before commenting on the speck in your brothers eyes”.
Humans are made up of so many parts and if you think by understanding a part that you know all of someone then you are seriously mistaken but if we take everyone as a new unique discovery then there will be a significant progress in the world today....
I refuse to accept those sayings.
We have taken such sayings to heart such that if someone does not fulfill your expectations at the first instance they are dismissed as being unworthy of your time, effort as the case may be...
Hes an Ijebu man-therefore he must be stingy
She doesn’t wear earrings-oh she must be one of those holier than thou people
He’s quiet-he’s a green snake, must be very vindictive
He looks gentle-he must be a pushover
These are labels we have placed on people just by meeting them once.
Do you give time to know the persons philosophies, likes dislikes, values, background,....of course not. I just need to know where you’re from, what u’re wearing to put you in a category......
So much has been lost because of this.
I once had a friend who told me that just by looking at me he knows i cant do anything spontaneously or something simple as scream my lungs out.Why did he make such a statement?
He felt i looked too cool to do that. Has he seen me in a situation that requires me to scream? No he just labelled me and put me in the category “too cool to scream”.
Alas for him i went (spontaneously) for auditions to a TV show and got invited- he was shocked to see me on TV doing stuff he felt i couldn’t do and the next day he told me i had been pretending all along. Imagine the insult....... Was tempted to scream just for good measure and walked away—good riddance. Watch out, you just might see me doing the “twist” on a table.
Its my opinion that these labels we put on people contributes to some of the problems in the world today-where all Muslims are seen as fanatics, in the US any one looking even Arabic is watched with the suspicion of being a terrorist or closer home, people from Warri are seen as loud uncouth people and we have already put up a defence without giving them a chance.
The behaviour of one person has made the same brush to be used in painting those alike in tribe,religion,attitude; as if the other person does not have an identity of his own.
We are all unique beings and the attitude of one does not define the rest of us...
I think it’s all crap, a way for us to feel better than the other “i’m not like him o “ ,“i’m different “Oh you blasphemer “ have u removed the log from your own eye before commenting on the speck in your brothers eyes”.
Humans are made up of so many parts and if you think by understanding a part that you know all of someone then you are seriously mistaken but if we take everyone as a new unique discovery then there will be a significant progress in the world today....
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