An abode-initiating function of the brain, cure to honey pot of grief, washing hearts with tears of rain, rebuking gods and forming a new shell, denying birth & embracing death to escape pain, blaming gods, though they’re not to blame, calling God’s name not in vain, promising Imams so life doesn’t end brief, pain is […]

We are the chosen ones. built the famous tower of Ramses. received the first mail on two stones. walked the dry path of patted seas. witnessed the rising of dry bones. watched rods turn snakes. erected idols of gold and bronze. saw the wrath of Moses. As we fled the city of pyramids and cones. […]

Abracadabra, my harmless magic. An enemy and a friend, an enemy that can be tragic, a friend that can be helpful, helpful with the use of logic. The enemy burns to perfection; yellow metals with no use of magic. A romance story that has no end, is what fire and gold has to logic. Tomide […]

Eyes with a hateful gaze Like a vile wind, you can’t escape it. Through the glass doors of victory mansion They stood like a coloured poster Too large for indoor display Yet manning the walls like a spy. It depicted an enormous face Of a man in his forties. Heavy black mustache And rugged handsome […]

Her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. Her hair was glistening. Her hands were cold and dripping. I leaned back momentarily into my lane. Daisy’s face looked at me dangerously. “My dearest one”. With a bright ecstatic smile. Increasing the loud beating of my heart. A damp streak of hair Lay like a […]

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing,” he said, “They don’t eat up the garden head.” Cusitta was blind in one eye, he was feeble, much older than the parents of our school, he was father to I, he was older than these people. Blind and crazy, Nearly fifty, his tribal curse was on his left, his […]

I wish you death. For you have betrayed me. Stabbing me in the back. You shared my gift with Seth. After you swore it was saved for me, In times of abundance and times of lack. I had prayed that you should not die. On my knees night and day; Begging God so you do […]

A world without sunset, where nothing rises and nothing sets. Where imaginations become a threat. The attempt of thoughts result to fear. In a world where silence becomes a voice and sounds remains unheard. A world where holy books are a guidance never read. Where certainty differs from death, and birth is a beginning that […]

Ekabo to an ocean filled with wishes, an ocean filled with sand. I mean a heart that beats like a band. This is a famished land filled with dishes, a desert where roasted bread is grown, where heavy downpour makes the subjects drown. But no one else knows this story, there’s only one witness who […]