Sometimes it’s really hard to start something. Especially when you’ve failed so many times, that you’re slowly dying for that one win. You beat yourself up time and time again, doing your best. And when that isn’t good enough, you give more than you can. Then one day your body reminds you of how much … More MANIFEST.
EPISODE 10 Inside the mirror, my mother’s face looks back at me. She smiles like she does in her pictures, which is the only place I know her from. Photo albums filled with memories and stories told to me by everyone else who was lucky enough to have known her, before she was taken from … More IT WILL ALL WORK OUT.
EPISODE 9 The wind whistles in the distance, calling me out of a deep sleep. I can hear even the tallest trees fighting back, trying to keep their balance. Not a single bird has chirped this morning. The weather is as grey as I am feeling blue. I wake up to an empty house. Godfrey … More IT WILL ALL WORK OUT.
EPISODE 8 I return home from my impromptu visit to Doctor Ngobeni, shocked beyond belief. I’ve been scrambling through my mind trying to figure out who would be so cruel, as to intentionally give me an abortion pill or something like that. Doctor Ngobeni and I went through a series of theories, and maybe I … More IT WILL ALL WORK OUT.
They’ve warned me about men like you. The kind of man who takes a well-balanced woman, Promise her the entire world. Only to throw her off balance. Men that walk with grace Who appear to have honor. But rot, lies beneath their crisp white skin. Oh, and when they smile, be very wary. Deceit is … More YOU BELONG TO THE WORLD.
You shine so bright, it’s very hard to ignore youEven when you try to hide behind the cloudsYou burn just like the sun.So, when you are not the light you are the heat that keeps us warm in the night. But to yourself, you are just a cog in a machine.Designed to play a tiny … More THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
They call us the girls who grew up too fast, who asked for it with their little short skirts. Or enjoyed the attention they received from boys a little too much. The little girls left alone at night surrounded by monsters, wearing familiar and unfamiliar faces.We aren’t the girls that needed protecting,We are the girls … More RUMOURS
How everything you have come to love about him, Is covered in a pile of garbage that you carry religiously on your back. Because it’s the only thing that validates those earth-shattering memories Upon which your entire life depends. As he’s drenched in alcohol breath that comes straight from his stomach. He settles into your … More HOW DO I TELL HIM…
I’ve always hated winter. The way everything just feels so cold, is kind of haunting. I like warmth. It just feels right, like, hot is supposed to be how I feel all the time. That is both figurately, and literally. I don’t know if anyone else cares so much about their appearance. I mean, I … More THESE ARE JUST THOUGHTS.
Do you know who I am. Because I do. But sometimes I do not. So maybe you can help me figure it out. Because I like my eggs half cooked with a spoonful of butter. So I can feel my taste buds dance with joy, as the eggs melt like a dream come true on … More SPLIT
A SHAMEFUL THING 