We had forests replete with lush trees whose branches hugged the skies. Animals and birds lived there wild and tangled. In the tranquil silence, Earth thrived and healed itself. Men never forgot their roots and lived the old fable of their ancestors. But as time passed, we became so wrapped up in ourselves that nature’s […]
Read More The Earth Needs Saving TooFor someone who was dotingly looking for an excuse to have her exams postponed, I am by far, in the wrong for having had rejoiced when a strange illness struck some remote part of the world. Little did I know that in no time, my pursuit of contentment at such bizarre affairs would come to […]
Read More My Covid ExperienceWhen I die, bury me in like a seed; my tomb- a shallow thing dug into the seashore by sun-burnt children’s sticky hands. As my atoms come undone, the wind will carry me like dandelions- in springtime that shimmer like seashells on a distant shore. While I’m at it, bring me no flowers to […]
Read More Meeting DeathI hide skeletons in my closet They are death sentences that plunge knives into my heart They are judgements that translate probable rejections Every lessons I take wrong Edges that have never been levelled .. Self sabotage, my sterling weapon That fashions my insides into a grave That buries me alive And my lingering spirits […]
Read More Knowing MeThey often say that I was born with kite strings in my hair, the tuft of moonlit sky entangled in the name of teeth, That I was born with warmth of summer and plentitude of spring. I have petals for skin that sheds in a striptease for autumn. I have mangroves growing between […]
Read More The Child Of The WildWhen I was 10, I wanted to know what my name meant. Every name had a meaning; And I just couldn’t wait to know mine So I rushed to my abba seated in his janamaz, hands folded in prayer At the sight of me restless, he beckoned me to the safety of […]
Read More Names And FlamesThis is to you who feels like your existence is a speck in this world. This is to you who lose sleep over the emotions lost in translation and the unspoken passive voices that hang in thin air. This is to you who look up at the sky and see nothing but darkness. This is […]
Read More Fight Till You Make ItYou toss me on to bed The way one would throw discounted riches on to a gambling floor My legs wound into exactness of a four poster bed The pair of frailties dangling loose like the legs of a divider placed at length to measure the lexis of an eulogy You force yourself on to […]
Read More A stifled AntigoneEverything seems to move around in circles now. My pen failed to wend words for the longest time. Days turn to weeks, weeks turn into months and I am left wondering if the art of it is lost on me. Like the feelings of your past lover. I seem to have swallowed words […]
Read More A Voice RegainedSometimes we make home out of monsters and call it love. We lock ourselves in rooms where the doors and windows shut behind us with its frozen centre. You’d want to linger there because you would’ve been promised the warmth of a thousand splendid suns. The very eyes that made love to you would turn […]
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