by JB Nuique
when they said you can be anyone
they did not mean you can be no one
for you must be anything more and more
not anything less than you were before
but the question is, if we are all giants
who will do the great work of the ants?
if we are all stones and are hard
who’ll own the place of flexible sand
its ability to fill gaps pebbles can’t take
its power to flow and dauntlessness to break
so if there is a standing you wish to acquire
though they mock you, be teardrops in their fire
for life is something we can never explain
but to embrace all, even its sorrow and pain
considering a trade must be done for the calm
by letting me be i, the small but the good that i am
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ABOUT THE POET ~
J.B. Nuique, aka Giudellius, is a Cebuano-speaking Negrense from the Philippines. She is an August Virgo, an artist and an ink drinker. She loves sunsets, coffee and chocolate cake. She likes rom-com films and other films with women as the main character. Other than poetry, she is writing novels about the women in her fictional country of Simetra. Her Judenne Waters, where she posted most of her works during the pandemic, is on hiatus.
Last updated February 19, 2025