To Simply Be - Udaya Tushara Sudanagunta

poem read by Timothy Arliss OBrien

To Simply Be
Udaya Tushara Sudanagunta

A bird on the tip,

same place

for hours,

lost in thoughts,

staring into the abyss.

No intention to fly,

no will to chase,

no obligation to race.

Just being —

swaying in wind,

trusting the situation.

In that stillness,

I see myself —

learning, at last,

to simply be.

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Udaya’s made of poems, plot twists, and panic attacks. She runs on coffee, sarcasm, and dramatic overthinking.
She turns life’s chaos into art. Armed with a pen, wit, and a suspicious number of notebooks, she writes poems
from life’s messes—mostly after 1 a.m., when her mysterious alter ego takes over.
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