When we eat with a closed mouth and open eyes How then can we be wise? When we feed our minds on what buries us How then should we rise? The screen we see does not screen us. The movies we watch do not move us. So many thrillers in the cinemas. Yet our lives […]

We are no longer free We no more can play We cannot anymore be Ourselves or have a say For in every city and In every home, In every book and In every page In every Garden and On every tree Under water and land There’s an eye watching you Watching me Seeing all that […]

Before the shadow of death is cast upon my soul, Let me behold once again the beauty of life Through the mirror of the sun. Though I cannot see it, But I feel its reflection on my whole. Bringing back living memories on a dying scene That shows the full emptiness of life. I was […]

Forget the name you call Give me a bed and I will make one name I will make roses out of glass and monsters from pets forget what my eyes see there’s a deeper hole in my pillow. Forget what you call me give me a bed and I will chant more names. I will […]

I am like a robot. I have lost how to feel. I don’t know if I’m going nuts. I just don’t know what needs to heal. I don’t know if I want to die, Or if ever I still want live. I’m still finding the truths that lie. Did I hurt someone? Do I need […]

she said to me “you are kind and out of your mind, charming and sweet solemn and discreet but you’ve been to me more even more than i had before and what i can’t ignore is something more you’ve been to me: sweat and tears these past years you have been my water- the sea […]

The isolation in exile of my forefathers Makes me wonder if they are still scared If they help us their oppressors will rise, Why sip from our gin and bite our kola If you won’t come to our aid at night As the road to pass through, as the light? The air we breathe carries […]

There’s a town in my bones a town where flowered roads are saturated with laughter of bodies souls that are shook. There is a town in between my chest edging memories aside it is not as brown as the color life or holds the sun like the rays do dust. There is a town after […]

They cuffed mama with 6 drip bags Switched her bones with cardboard paper Told her she was too old for hair I looked at her like a corpse looks at the world The rhythm in her breath was a song by Bob Marley No woman no cry No woman no pain No woman no you. […]

To carry a pot of soup Uphill the kitchen And not feed mother Earth the content Is hard work I choose the work Of writing in my head Weaving patterns in my heart Translating thoughts to action Shooting an arrow to the sky Celebrating on earth Bose