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And at the end of the day, The photos of the day come to play. As the day ends, After the sun kisses our skins; mine and yours my friend! I think of the kind of person I’d been, Think of the love [...]

For three weeks a crowd had gathered at home to celebrate my grandmother’s life. For three weeks the atmosphere was gloomier, tainted with sadness and frustration, and thoughts of never seeing [...]

We went to the beach We heard the beautiful sound of the waves. Also, we heard the palm trees rustling. We stepped foot on the sand in the beach An amazing feeling it was It made us feel [...]

The sound of a flipping page amidst malevolence, In a land of imprecision, My breath blows out beneficence And I find meaning on each line ever written. The sound of my feet trudging on a dirty [...]

It could be in the burning fire of hell Or high as the seventh heaven It could be on waves of the ocean bed Or within buried caves Whether scorching or freezing In her arms I find home It could [...]

I have a big red t-shirt; My favourite attire I wear it as an advert Of all that I desire I wear It when I dust And when I retire An oversized misfit That makes me feel higher I don’t wear it [...]

People say home is where you live But…. I say it’s where you feel safe Home is known as your personal throne Or a precious stone you own You can go home with a groan Or a bad tone It doesn’t [...]

Woke up to a burning world But not with a blue and yellow flame It was a slow, subtle, smouldering red One whose destruction nibbles quietly Eating the living, giving hearts of men Spitting out [...]

Trapped inside a rib cage, Lies a heart pumping blood to the entire population, Cells, red, black, and white awaiting the supply, Working through the night and the twilight, A sick day would be a [...]

Her Lulu cornrows knotted by the hands of her mother, Introduce her ipseity. Her sunless skin and cimmerian eyes, Swallow you in like an ocean. The cowrie beads hanging from her dreadlocks, Call [...]