Life, Love, Growth, Me
It was the September of 2016....I still had the scent of Morocco running through my mind. I'd just celebrated my birthday there. It felt good to breathe in a different type of air, you know. I was tired of the one that had been keeping me alive in my home town, metaphorically speaking. Love …
Continue reading "A New Me, On Repeat"
Completely invested (in him) But equally disinterested (in me) And it showed, when he walked out the door, and my soul followed... I watched myself leave! And for a split second (or two), I realised I had been living outside of myself... Time stood I was still, for the first time. In a long time. …
Continue reading "You Live Here Now"
You look so good You sound so good. You come across so well, so intelligent. A geek. I like you. A strong black woman. Mmm. I'm a black man that loves his black women You’re the type of woman that a REAL man would want to make his wife We’re so compatible, I can tell... …
Continue reading "First Round"
Sometimes she gets the urge to keep on travelling, to keep on moving, to keep on searching But in fact, it’s only because outdated attachments had become her safety And broken promises had become a guarantee Not that it felt good - but tension showed up like a past lover she could rely on She …
Continue reading "But When You Find it"
They raise her to take a knee before man. To accept defeat as a natural born state. But she has never known war. She was born into conflict. A conflict so unfair. A conflict so deceptive. They keep her in hell whilst promising her heaven. They leave her poisoned and starving, whilst eating from the …
Continue reading "In the name of God (apparently)"
A girl may search for love her entire life, but she must keep on searching until what looks right, feels right ...until what feels right, is right She must search until all desire to search dissolves, ...until she realises that there need not be any search at all She must search until she can see …
Continue reading "We Are Not Lost"
It was the beginning of the millennium. The year 2000. The fact that we were all still alive and had not combusted with the expiry of a ticking time bomb attached to the existence of the Earth itself, was seen as somewhat of a collective achievement. For once, the world stood united in a shared …
Continue reading "Without Her Make-Up"
When somebody else's secret is your truth, to whom do you stay loyal? - Catrina Sophia So many of us are living with the burden of another persons secret. Whilst the life within us is stiffled by suppression. It's that moment when the altitude of these kept secrets are sharing the air that you rely …
I've been praying to my Father all of my life, but something has happened to me recently. I find myself yearning the love of my "Mother". My YeYo. I often sit and contemplate what happened to her. Where did she go? Who removed her from existence? Who removed me? All of this religious teaching has …
Continue reading "YeYo….I Miss You"
"Cry about it tonight, because you have to make it right in the morning. That's all." - Helen, Being Mary Jane
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