Transition
By The Ordinary Poet
I asked a friend to tell me about me,
to let me know who is the me that they see,
do they see the person that I know inside
or is it they don't see the person I hide.
Dare I reveal this desire for change
and show to the world that views me as strange
the truth of a being that needs to evolve,
that cannot stand still,
my own riddle to solve.
What will they think if I wear what I am,
will they embrace the colours and not give a damn
or will they withdraw and demand me to be
the person they know,
the one that they see.
I am in transition and fighting the world,
as the truth that is me is the truth I unfurl
and I know as I change it's a challenge for those
who only judge others by the cut if their clothes.
Michael Paul Brigden writes under the pen name The Ordinary Poet. Michael’s poems have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies including Songs of Peace (The World’s biggest Poetry Anthology 2020), In the Memory of Trayvon Martin (2017), Whispers Journal (2018), Equipoise (Amazon 2018), Poets Pond Volume 2 (Xpress Publishing), Break The Silence (Amazon 2020), Poetica Volume 2 (Amazon 2019), Scarlet Leaf Review (2017), Depression is What Really Killed the Dinosaurs (Amazon 2022), Forget Me Not Press Nothing Gold Can Stay (2022), Hope Is A Group Project (TheWeeSparrowPoetryPress 2022), Querencia Summer Anthology (2022), Magical Midwest-An anthology (2022), Ecological Phsychopoetry (2022/23) and a Commendation in The Stephen Spender Prize 2022. Michael has also self published anthologies of work available on Amazon Living Through Lockdown: The world According To Covid 19 (2020) and A Love Letter To Jamaica (2023).