What keeps you sane?What motivates you?What makes you happy?What gives you satisfaction?Is all that enough? What are your deepest fears?Its been badIts been scary. What is the essence of living?Why do we have dreams,hopes and [...]
What keeps you sane?What motivates you?What makes you happy?What gives you satisfaction?Is all that enough? What are your deepest fears?Its been badIts been scary. What is the essence of living?Why do we have dreams,hopes and [...]
By and large the drama did unfold and quickly at that! It was like someone was remotely controlling the turn of events and I was acting out a script. It was like a joke on [...]
Monday afternoon and half way through my shift, my back was already aching from standing and bending over patients performing surgeries; as I walked out to get a drink my phone rang and it was [...]
I walked towards the gate as Frankie’s voice kept resounding in my subconscious. It was so funny how the one person who I had wanted to see and who had made himself elusive to me [...]
Standing on the edge of this cliff Felt like I was a lone leaf Ready to be blown away by the wind Although different, still like a swing At the peak of this mountain My [...]
Trying to figure out Who you are Questions only you can answer I wonder if you are real You are different Your smile is different Your laughter is different You make your sleep sounds different [...]
Telling me to keep it in When you want to save yourself the tirade Telling me you are my friend When you are the one who kills me Smiling at me When you can barely [...]
There we both stood facing each other; what I felt at that point? I do not know. It was like I stopped feeling if for a while or maybe I just blanked; is that even [...]
Walking like I would stumble any minute Yet I find that I could go on till eternity Where is the source? The strength? Who gave the order? Telling me to go this far? Assuring me [...]
You see me, look away You think of me, forget I exist You say my name; replace it with someone else’s You perceive me, please take a fresh breathe of air I tell you to [...]
“…I would be staying with Amina, Infact that is the reason she’s here right now seeing that you’re not eager to take me in” I replied in answer to Sweet’s initial question before I was [...]
Pick now your stone For surely I know your stone on me Will be the first to fall Don’t hide behind a smile For I can see through to the insincerity As surely as I [...]
In a life of hate It was easy to give it taste Struggling to get my identity To be remembered for eternity Living each day in fear Like my death was near Never seeing victory [...]
The feelings slide My heart is slippery It can’t stick The emotions won’t enfold me So much pain, The heartbreaks have stopped to matter Then I should be light You should know I do not [...]
Because of you You- I climbed out of my hole; Because of you I learnt to believe Because of you I got up from bed With my life turned around I had your face in [...]
Don’t be Don’t be sorry Sorry for your wrong Your transgressions Don’t tell me you didn’t know We’ve been counting Saving the coins Just to let you know That we felt it Where it hurt [...]
… Someone knocked on my door; I turned towards the sound but before I could compose myself and give permission for entry, the door opened and Sweet barged in with the sad look on her [...]
He moved, leading the troll They all depended on him I did, still do Are we on the right track? They ask Yes But I see a mist Do you have faith? Do you trust? [...]
It beats so hard That on the mirror The shapes arrange The consciousness Trying to please Please so hard You forget who you are Becoming what you are now, What they want- No! The effort, [...]
Green as ever, My memories of you Light shining brighter My love for you Betrayals from you Forgotten in a moment Still, the fight Not to let you see Me continues. Clock ticking Showing how [...]
You You gave me my first steps, I walked, I stopped Afraid to continue No inspiration It left when you did. I search I look My soul, Be there for me Even you? You leave? [...]
“… You’re beginning to add weight, you know?” At this, I cringed inwardly; “There she goes again” I thought to myself and pretended not to hear what my mum had just said. This was supposed [...]
Laughter of a lonely person So like the echoes of a wind Noiseless yet noisy This feels like a familiar road One I have traveled a million times Yet I never have I am shown [...]
“Having no hope for relief, There you were, Was like coming up for fresh air- These feelings you’ve awoken, Buried and forgotten. What I feel? Still hard to grasp. You for real? Still pondering. Yet [...]
I want to writeFor as long as I can breatheI want to reasonFor as long as I am free So I think I am freeYet there are still hidden cagesThat bound me and would not [...]
My life is so unbelievableI thought I could make it understandable Treasure me so much,we fuseColour our feelings in a colour we use Now that is a thought that keeps me hopingWhile in my quiet [...]