Pre.Kaya’ Gilkey is a Poet, Entrepreneur, Author of debut book Exposed Poetry Memoirs, and Featured Contributor Writer for BIZCATALYST 360°.
Hoping to encourage the world...one word at a time
Oddly Bloomed
One day my grandmother clarified why I had been given such a unique name;
Tilling the garden, she began to share with me a parable of how all flowers are beautiful, although they do not all blossom the same;
Some need the birds and the bees in order for them to reproduce,
Not all are brightly colored; take for instants the daylily called the “brown recluse”—
Unique amongst its kind, it’s magnificent still to gaze;
Its blooms are rich with mahogany brown and once it captures you, in awe you’ll stand amazed;
Something so different, has been so beautifully and wonderfully made
And there’s a reason why they choose to name it after a poisonous spider in which everyone is afraid.
The more I grew, the more I pondered, and then one day that parable became clear—
I do not have to conform to be accepted in this world, even though being labeled as different is what most people fear.