The Hub
This is the hub.
There's lots of us here.
Bubbling.
We share ideas.
We support.
We rest.
The roof is beetle shaped.
When it rains, it sounds as if UFO rocks are falling on us!
School’s just not for me, but I love the hub,
This is where I am, all of me…
I don't leave myself behind when I walk through these doors, as I often do for school.
Every now and then, there are rumours that the hub will close.
People sign petitions, make a noise, then it stays a bit longer, but in the future, who knows?
I hope the hub never goes!
The truest place I've ever known,
A home from home for all of us…
And listen,
When I'm older, this is what I'm going to do-
I'll make a chain of hubs,
For all the others,
Like me and you.
There's lots of us here.
Bubbling.
We share ideas.
We support.
We rest.
The roof is beetle shaped.
When it rains, it sounds as if UFO rocks are falling on us!
School’s just not for me, but I love the hub,
This is where I am, all of me…
I don't leave myself behind when I walk through these doors, as I often do for school.
Every now and then, there are rumours that the hub will close.
People sign petitions, make a noise, then it stays a bit longer, but in the future, who knows?
I hope the hub never goes!
The truest place I've ever known,
A home from home for all of us…
And listen,
When I'm older, this is what I'm going to do-
I'll make a chain of hubs,
For all the others,
Like me and you.
This poem is copyright (©) Carmella de Keyser 2026

About the Writer
Carmella de Keyser
Carmella de Keyser is a prize-winning British poet, known for explorations of identity and heritage. Founder of the Harlow Circle of Poetry Stanza, judge for the Harlow Poetry Open, she has five books published or forthcoming, from Hedgehog Press, Alien Buddha Press, Parlyaree Press and the Seventh Quarry Press.