To every man who’s ever been looked in the eye and told he’s too much:
You who left the fold before they folded it off you
You who came out inventing your own how-to-scale-a-wall with on consonants
Let them call you different
Let them bait the minnows of your heart
Show them your heart is a school of fish, a solar system of all moons
When asked, say, “My heart is always causing the mating season.”
When they call you full of yourself, say, “Yes, I do breathe better air.”
Breathe in their scorn and breathe out Eldorado.
Let them come with their glassy, cutting smiles
Let them come with their saw-blade hands
Let them choose easier guys
You’re not easy.
You don’t display your sexual prowess in cubicles filled with self-deduced, open-minded criminals jeering you on
You’re not easy because you’re not like some who date below the line, simply because Madonna and Julia Roberts paved the way for them.
When he tells you he is tossing your broken root out his open window and holds up to the glass a more common man, Surrender.
Gracefully surrender the pretend olive branch of his intimacy while you’ve always stood in shoes too small for you
When he says he is easier to handle, live with, attach to, fuck, I want you to remember your neck
The way it ascends space – and always has – above the rest
You were brought here for so much more than walking two-by-two up a ship plank.
Anyone common enough to go coward at the depth of his love for you wasn’t meant to walk beside you
Love should not have us stoop to fit a portrait.
Love should have us elevate our infinity
So, Uncommon man, don’t settle for less.
Instead, stride towards the ever shedding horizon
Take his example of renewal.
Wear your grief like a party dress!
Remember, the sun’s only lover is not the Earth.
She’s got moons on every planet.
So, go live in the liquid bowl of gold you were handed for a skin
Uncommon man, let the easier man pick up the socks
Embrace your splendid singularity
And look to the rest of us Uncommon men, standing in the centres, holding up the reins.
Written by Vhar
This is the key of the kingdom
In that kingdom there is a city
In that city there is a town………..
… In that Town there is a Street
In that Street, there is a lane.
On that lane there is a house….
In that house there are people, amongst the people there are men, holding his head high within the men is the uncommon man.
Lobatan.
Vhar, this is nice
Thank you Pete.
*reading and re-reading those lines* Kai! It is not properly morning yet and Vhar is already eclipsing the nonexistent sun with shade. Shade so skillfully delivered. LOL!
Plx Plx and Plx, what are you talking about this fine morning?
Don’t come and put me in unnecessary trouble you hear Mandy??
Kd,s poet doing what he knows how to do best. Well done,Vhar
The concept of the uncommon man. Food for thought?
I am an Uncommon Man.
‘Tis, why I love Vhar.
Vhar Vhar Voom!
Luurh ya too #TeamK.
Thank you.
Fantasy…. fantasy, nice poem though.
Thank You Chris..
Well done Vhar. I love the way you used personification. But is this a poem or a litany of praises?
Thank you MaskedMan.
Yeah, a lirru litany.
Just a lirru.
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Braingarsm haff kee me oh.. I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vhar vhar voom has done it again.. Lots of love from me….lots of it.. 😍☺☺☺.
This is brilliant.. This is my mantra … The mantra I’ve been singing alone(or so I thought).. Nice to see someone else has the save views..
Keep it coming. 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Be careful, Max. Not everyone believes they’re uncommon. You know, those who don’t think they’re fabulous. *sipping the delicately*
Pinky I think this is a nicely written piece.. But that doesn’t still make me fabulous.. Heck! I don’t even want to be fabulous..
Hey, to every man his sense of (un)fabulousity.
Fabulous ko….fabricate ni…lol
Oh honey, we’re well aware of your lack of fabulousity, so don’t sweat it.
@Tef
Hahahahaa. That we are.
The uncommon man! That statement has hounded me since birth. My parents, my teachers, my friends, my acquaintances, my classmates, in short, almost everybody I know tells me this. However, I don’t see myself as uncommon. Different, yes but uncommon, I have no idea. I bask in my difference.
Yep. bask in it always.
That man in the pic up there tho*
Just here thinking of all kinds of things he could do to me…
**basking in my uncommonness**
Bask in it Teffy.
BASK IN IT…
Hehehehee. Vhar-Vhar-Voom, do you know that diaris God in everything we’re doing?
Uncle Panther, you want make I “JUMIA” my Classic look to your door step abi?
#GiiYourselfPrestigeFastFast
*in my Mercy Johnson Voice*
“My heart is always causing the mating season”
Nice piece 🙂
Thank you Alice.
Simply speechless is the word…..”Let them bait the minnows of your heart.Show them your heart is a school of fish, a solar system of all moons.When asked, say, “My heart is always causing the mating season.” When they call you full of yourself, say, “Yes, I do breathe better air.”
You do not know how so much you’ve made my day…..”Wear your grief like a party dress! Remember, the sun’s only lover is not the Earth. She’s got moons on every planet. So, go live in the liquid bowl of gold you were handed for a skin Uncommon man, let the easier man pick up the socks. Embrace your splendid singularity”…so i’m gonna take this to heart and liquidate my grief.
Richly shaded i must say and Depthy.
Ticked all the boxes right with this one.
Vhar.
lol.
Thank You..
Awww, Vhar.
Gosh, I feel dumb! Vhar, I would like us to discuss this poem line by line via email?
Sure. That’ll be nice.
This is absolutely amazing! *scrolling up to read it the fourth time*
This is a very BEAUTIFUL piece…but you know what is more beautiful, the man in the picture. Whoever he is and wherever he is, I hope he knows that there is a lonely boy somewhere in the heart of Nigeria who wants him sleeping in his bed. I think I have found my one true love.
Thank you.
Copying and saving for my next heart break.
No time to check time, who needs ppl to delude me and tell me I’m special and uncommon when I can chant this and make it sound like a new age incantation.
Vharlicious-vhar done did it again!!!!!
Ori e is there bobo yi
Lol.
Thank you.
I don’t get it.
Well written piece.
I am an uncommon man… so I shall ask, Pinky do u by chance have the contacts of this guy in the picture above… I think I am in love because my D kips nodding at him 🙂
Hehehe..
Nice. let it keep nodding.
NICE piece indeed!
And really Im an uncommon man..well done vhar.
1st tym here…nice experience…happy to roll wt like enlightened minda.
Welcome