Stone Soup Servings is a regular series for Oddball Magazine that features upcoming performers at Stone Soup Poetry, the long-running spoken word venue in the Boston area that has partnered with Oddball Magazine. Stone Soup Poetry now meets from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery’s new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. The open mike sign-up at 6:30 p.m.
On January 25, we are featuring Gladys Hidalgo, a poet who has been getting noticed on our open mic and our Stone Soup Poetry Slam. Enough that we feel a feature is already overdue. Read the poem below, and you should be convinced enough to be in the audience this Monday.
Lost
I have lost myself
to the culture of not being anything undefinable
Labels filthy with the blood sweat and tears
I have given to conform
The rumble in my thunder
has been on silent since I can remember
Daddy always said that I should shouldn’t fear the silence
I should embrace the sound of God’s rapture
causing chaos around me
If love is lost was there ever love in the first place
But there is no such thing as no love lost
between beaches of confusion and rising riptides
Robbing breath from those whose opinions are deemed
too loud for the sensitive ears of the miniature politicians to be
Forced to fit their hourglass hearts into square ideals
lest there be a sliver of hope left
for the hearts that remember their true shape
So many have forgotten what it means to simply be
and sometimes I just feel like being me
Breaking the mold they cast for my star shaped soul
squares were always too perfect for me
Years of being broken has only lead for my uprising
Anarchy imprinted in my mixed blood
I contain the history of the south east even the west if you fly in the right direction
My pen bleeds the tears I refuse to shed for the fallen
soldiers of a war we’ve been fighting since the beginning of time
Its never been so hard to be yourself
Living in a time where your God given skin is target practice
for those of differing shades
contradicting the law of nature
That is if they even respect it in the first place
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