But When You Find it

Sometimes she gets the urge to keep on travelling, to keep on moving, to keep on searching But in fact, it’s only because attachments had become her uncertainty And broken promises had become a guarantee What is there outside of this tension that she has known for so long But lately, she doesn’t show up […]

You Can Keep Your “isms”

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 […]

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A New Me, On Repeat

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 […]

Full Circle

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 Until she can see the height of […]

18 Years Old

Excuse me for what might appear to you as “inconvenient” It’s just that I’m failing to understand your detachment Your lack of accountability Your inconsistency in being biologically responsible Your reward and exchange based behaviour… You see its just that my daughter… You know, Your Daughter Your Niece Your Grand-daughter Your God-daughter She is lacking […]

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Without Her Make-Up

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 […]

Loyalist

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 […]