Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton My passion for writing began early, in the quiet pages of my journals. It was a love shaped in part by my father’s career as a journalist at the BBC, where stories were not just told, but lived…
Embodiment
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings… This is how new visions begin. – Audre Lorde – Embodiment who taught us to leave our bodies behindto live from the neck upto trust…
Moments
The Moment the moment i realized i inherited wounds i never lived throughthe moment i discovered i was standing in a hierarchy i never agreed tothe moment i learned color in both a mirror and a sentencethe moment the world suddenly had instructions for methe moment i stopped shrinking my truth to fit your comfortthe…
Home
Home cocks crowbirds chipmorning sunwake up grandmagoats sheep chicken cowsall roaming aroundwarm dung cow bellssmelly dungcattle rattlingmorning smokedamp earth dewmud wallstinned wallsHome pots clangingfirewood crackingtea boilingmilk fresh milksugartoo much sugarhot oil chapatiwomen calling open fenceslaughter loudHome doors openno knocking unexpected visitorsvillagers neighbourstea poured againsweet potatoes bananascassava cornsharedendless storiestime stretching no hurryHome children playingbarefeetrunning around dust-chasingtyres…
The Silence Beneath My Speech
The Silence Beneath My Speech silence is not emptyit is crowdedpressing heavy on the chest with things that can only be felt some emotions refuse languagemy heart knows their shapebut not their spellingso i keep them quietnot because they are smallbut because they are enormous silence isn’t silentsilence speaks it speaks in pulsesin tight throats…
A Disciplined Desire
A Disciplined Desire i breath knowing that i will see you yet another weeklike a ritual i pretend not to believe in i follow your instructionshands folded around restraintmouth closed around all the thingsi will never say you are brilliance made casualart spilling out of youas if its weightless voice guitar piano drumsthe world simply…
Modern Enough To Unlearn Being Human
I grew up in a place where food did not come with labels.It came with seasons. In our backyard, trees stood like quiet providers. Oranges, lemons, avocado, tamarind, castor apple, name them. Their fruits fell freely, sometimes wasted, sometimes shared, never counted. Food did not come wrapped in plastic; it came from soil, from patience,…
The Shape Love Leaves
The Shape Love Leaves i keep circling back to this thought love sits at the center of us allin the way we attachretreatprotect destroy sacrificeand sometimes disappear nothing happens in a vacuumtrauma does not fall from the skyit grows in the placeswhere love is absentunevenor overwhelming some of us raised without safetywithout consistencywithout hands that…
Layered
Layered i do not enter rooms as one i arrive layeredand everyone asks meto peelstay predictable offering single answersfor plural woundsone lens at a timeone struggle per conversation except my body doesn’t experience lifein bullet pointsbut in paragraphswithout punctuationwithout pausesevery sentence bleeding into the next when i speak of racemy gender is mutedwhen i speak…
Held by Two Effulgences
Held by Two Effulgences i built a planetwhen the earth grew too unbearablea place with softer gravitywhere i land without breakingwhen reality tightens its gripi disappear thereto a home that answers only to me in this world i am understoodwithout explanationi am safe without askingi am free there are two suns in my sky Helios…
The Binary Behind Our Inconsistency Doesn’t Harm, Unawareness Does
What we call inconsistency may simply be the visible surface of an internal binary we have not yet learned to hold. I no longer believe human beings are meant to be consistent.We are not designed to be purely good or purely bad, generous or selfish, kind or cruel. We are built as contradictions, carrying opposing…
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