Born To Be Nothing But Me. – Calosha
Calosha Gomes
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Let’s Get To It
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≻: Let’s Get To ItI say, “Let’s get back to it.” How love in life is less about love and more about if they…
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This Story – The One and The Other
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≻: This Story – The One and The Other“This Story” series of stories written by Calosha Gomes on everyday life. How living is not really living if freedom,…
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Back
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≻: BackI am back in the cold wind, flying higher than the last time I walked these streets. The green light…
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Destiny can’t be stolen
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≻: Destiny can’t be stolenEmpty page on Monday morning, filled with everything — every single error and every failure staring at the soul by…
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Present
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≻: PresentThe sun, piercing through my skin like never before. Maybe the long-awaited year is the reason why. The wind now…
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Flew, Walked, And Ran
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≻: Flew, Walked, And RanFlew to a different space in a different time zone, just to be held without sacrificing my own breath. Walk…
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Joy In a 3 × 4 box
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≻: Joy In a 3 × 4 boxIf you could fill joy in a 3 × 4 box, only to move it across the world. What would…
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Stroke Of Pencil
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≻: Stroke Of PencilMusic always has a way to get emotions on an open platter, while I am with my eyes closed, knowing…
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Life Is
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≻: Life IsNothing and everything at the same time. Forever and temporary at the same time. Immortal and mortal at the same…
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Rest Followed
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≻: Rest FollowedI go back to wherever everything hurt and wake up with a smile because I know how much I have…
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Only Need
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≻: Only NeedTo not be anything other than who I see when all chaos is calm. To stay that way not just…
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Worry and the Illusion of Control
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≻: Worry and the Illusion of ControlNo amount of peace could take away the thoughts we invite, knowing they are painful, even on a sunny day,…
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Seeing Beyond What Is Polished
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≻: Seeing Beyond What Is PolishedThe person who can admire design that is not hung in an art gallery has eyes they should be proud…
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Peace Is a Privilege
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≻: Peace Is a PrivilegeYou hated yourself so much it became a part of you. You see love for the first time; it feels…
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Off The Shoulder
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≻: Off The ShoulderI have turned into something that I could never unsee. I feel complete, and now I can’t imagine going back.…
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Floating Boat – Innocence
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≻: Floating Boat – InnocenceRemember the paper boat I made in class so I could watch it sail in the stream of water built…
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Hopes And Dreams
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≻: Hopes And DreamsI wrote in the snow all my dreams and hopes, melted away at the end of each winter. I wrote…
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Keeping The Cold Out
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≻: Keeping The Cold OutThe frozen ground and the chill in the air can’t fade the warmth in my heart or my will to…
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Nothing Beats. Feeling Unsafe
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≻: Nothing Beats. Feeling UnsafeNothing beats risking what I worked for. The whole year of dedication was about to crash and burn. I pulled…
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Dead Of Night – Stepping Away
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≻: Dead Of Night – Stepping AwayI stood outside, before I walked in, to feel all the emotions, because nothing is worse than locking them in.…
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Cinderella In Sheep’s Clothing
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≻: Cinderella In Sheep’s ClothingI open a new tab on a new year. The empty space feels hopeful. No shade of ink, feels like…
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A Day Before The Last
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≻: A Day Before The LastSecond to the last, I close my eyes as the water fills my lungs and I don’t suffer anymore. I…
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Fragile
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≻: FragileFragile but inner strength that can defeat all outer spaces. Fragile into the eyes of insecure beings, but love that…
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More Than Facing
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≻: More Than FacingMore Than Facing | Something Out Of A Real Movie | Reality Of CalCon The scene where I saw beauty…
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Not Worried
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≻: Not WorriedIf all my steps were stolen from me, I wouldn’t worry. If someone called me a fool, I wouldn’t worry.…
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Someplace Else
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≻: Someplace ElseI said I’ll write again when I know I am okay to face it. More, that I’ll put myself out…
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one in a million that I feel calm with.
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≻: one in a million that I feel calm with.An unknown language calms me, right? Korean has an effect on the soul. Not understanding has me not really paying…
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Darkest Side Of Humanity
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≻: Darkest Side Of HumanityI noticed you walked away. My shadow has left me before I could catch up with my emotions that weighed…
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Another Reason To Lead With Love.
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≻: Another Reason To Lead With Love.Another reason to know that love always sets everything free, and the power in love is always beyond hate and…
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My Adiós
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≻: My AdiósI sat across from my worst nightmare, and she spoke with words like maybes and howevers. I don’t remember your…
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Cycled Through
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≻: Cycled ThroughI cycled through all my clothes in my closet, and on the last grey sweater, they told me to leave,…
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I was told to be there at 10 and not 9.
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≻: I was told to be there at 10 and not 9.First, let me reintroduce my intentions to someone on the other side, who I used to be. I have lost…
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My Misfortune
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≻: My MisfortuneThis silence before I step into the fifth gear is a relief. Unused potential waiting to shine, and seeing that…
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December Reminder
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≻: December ReminderDecember Reminder – Calosha Gomes December reminds me to pack all my memories in the boxes I opened in January.…
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Poem By Calosha Gomes
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≻: Poem By Calosha GomesPoem by Calosha Gomes This will see the light of the day when this chapter is wrapped tighter than any…
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This Writer
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≻: This WriterThe writer of this story has left the call. Nothing compares to having to stick around when the betrayal hits…
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Where I Already Know
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≻: Where I Already KnowPoem By Calosha Gomes I write to pick up my fallen confidence, where there is no fallen confidence. I speak…
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Denied Authenticity
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≻: Denied AuthenticityPoem By Calosha Gomes The freedom from thinking about what others might say or think if you are yourself is…
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Too Scared To Utter
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≻: Too Scared To UtterThere are few words that rarely leave my mouth and I Care About You More Than You Know. These are…
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Love And Despise
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≻: Love And DespiseWhat I despised, now music to my ears. Sometimes a mix of both, because I could never love anything that…
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It Is Pinned
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≻: It Is PinnedPoem By Calosha Gomes I pinned all knowledge and now I have everything pinned. Nothing, goes unseen before my eyes.…
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Violin Tunes
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≻: Violin TunesPoem By Calosha Gomes I hear Violin tunes at every corner of this tunnel I have entered and has me…
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Abandoning
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≻: AbandoningPoem By Calosha Gomes The big sigh and the relief soon after we all know what comes after that. Time…
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Forgetting
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≻: ForgettingPoem By Calosha Gomes Every few seconds of understanding, why we are here together. Forgetting, the same thing once we…
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More Than Survive
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≻: More Than SurvivePoem By Calosha Gomes I only have two hands and sometimes wish, I had four. Would help get things done…
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We Made It
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≻: We Made ItPoem By Calosha Gomes We all have dreams that go unsaid. I bring out the best in people whose life…
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Third On Wishlist
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≻: Third On WishlistPoem By Calosha Gomes We always had a wishlist, I list it down every night. It hasn’t changed much. I…
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I Dropped
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≻: I DroppedPoem By Calosha Gomes I dropped everything, even me, just to build my empire. You are stepping, into the era…
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Precious
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≻: PreciousPoem By Calosha Gomes What’s the end of everything, only a new beginning. My eyes wide open to take it…
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Green Light, Red light
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≻: Green Light, Red lightPoem By Calosha Gomes Ohh let’s go. My soul left my body when I knew. I said, crap, not this…
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Taste In Music
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≻: Taste In MusicI ruined my taste in music just because I could, the power of free will. All I could do was…
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My Angel
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≻: My AngelPoem By Calosha Gomes My mortal soulmate and now my immortal angel, have me wishing there was no death. You…
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My Defender
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≻: My DefenderPoem By Calosha Gomes I could be, a fallen leaf and the sun shining on the once holding on to…
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Self Sabotage
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≻: Self SabotageI focused on our tomorrowand today I am forced to focus on my today.Had me dreaming, I could be anything…
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Anything
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≻: AnythingAnything to mean something, it needs someone to think about it for days and maybe months and even years.After all…
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Your Hell
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≻: Your HellPoem By Calosha Gomes You can be my miracle or a curse You can be my miracle or a curse.…
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Chasing Nothing
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≻: Chasing NothingPoem By Calosha Gomes I close my eyes and see green and smile in the distance; it’s not that far.…
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I Was Wrong
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≻: I Was WrongPoem By Calosha Gomes I might have gotten it all wrong, from how giving is easier if you have enough…
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Pleasing Just To Lose
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≻: Pleasing Just To LosePoem By Calosha Gomes Fifteen minutes to go till I have to be something for others and it has started…
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I Made A List
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≻: I Made A ListPoem By Calosha Gomes I made my list, and you’re not on it— had me off guard, in this world…
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My Match
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≻: My MatchPoem By Calosha Gomes My breath matches how I am, not missing a beat on anybody’s account. The discomfort is…
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FUnny But FActs
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≻: FUnny But FActsPoem By Calosha Gomes Funny but facts — all these puzzle pieces falling in place, in place of my tears.…
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Own Time
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≻: Own TimePoem By Calosha Gomes I chose my own time to get depressed, and then I chose my own time to…
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The Faded Blue
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≻: The Faded BluePoem By Calosha Gomes The blue has faded, and I am out of your caring haze. I can finally see…
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When Trauma Turns Into Art
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≻: When Trauma Turns Into ArtWhen Trauma Turns Into Art is a series of digital artworks by Calosha Gomes, showing how racism has had a…
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My Steel Heart
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≻: My Steel HeartPoem By Calosha Gomes In steel with what I can only imagine was my fate to fall at the feet…
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I Am Throwing A Kitchen Sink At It
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≻: I Am Throwing A Kitchen Sink At ItI was in two places at once. The relief at a closing door and not having to be stuck in…
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Yours Without The Full Confession
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≻: Yours Without The Full ConfessionPoem by Calosha Gomes When you don’t need a full confession to know that someone cares.
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Locked Up
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≻: Locked UpBy Calosha Gomes The fresh air and open doors can’t make us feel free. That’s when we know the mind…
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I Am, My Peace
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≻: I Am, My PeaceBy Calosha Gomes What brings you peace? Nature, would be the third one on my list of things that bring…
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Calm In The Present
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≻: Calm In The PresentPoem by Calosha Gomes This heart needs its calmness to beat the same way, every day, just like today. It…
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Same Song
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≻: Same SongPoem by Calosha Gomes I am listening to the same song, one song that could turn the frown upside down,…