I am Vera Bonny I can communicate telepathically Stories come as easy as a dialogue My sprit animal is a wolf, I commune with the moon I can stare at the sun without blinking I am in touch with my inner self And can’t go to bed without a shower and perfume I knew TV […]

i was… naive careless misguided studious bright wild & stubborn smart deviant blue rough around the edges and inside made many paths like a fox confused by all i followed   i am… grown calmer curious i am more aware in my hands is a river wiser i am my own becoming still smart barely […]

Just because I’m fair Doesn’t mean I am not black Doesn’t mean I am white And doesn’t mean I am black or white Just because I am kind Doesn’t mean I always give Doesn’t mean I forget whate’er I forgive Doesn’t mean my teeth never grind Just because I’m gentle Doesn’t mean I won’t lose […]

With so much give and takes And empty vessels and so much noise, What is true will remain true And that which is left will remain on its path. Kindness knows no colour or creed Neither does it speak entitlement and regret. She wouldn’t remind you of the oceans she crossed Nor the hello she […]

Life was an absolute bed of roses While I was within my mother. There was no knowledge Of good or bad, Just eat and sleep and kick and turn. I wish I learnt how to read and write Through the umbilical cord. I wished I learnt how to swim and drive And how to meditate. […]

I dominate my world and know how to chew my onions Knowledge is a friend to dine with Conversations make simple trips to my lips Tales tell me history to project my tomorrow Sleep and smile is an easy garment to wear I love piecing my life together A sense of order doesn’t make me […]

if my past be the place i spend the rest of my life i choose to remember not heroes. men and women who thitherto stood for something and sat for nothing. we don’t die of thirst in an ocean we drown at first in the water’s commotion hope may come but when we seek the […]

I can’t like whatever I dislike I really hate to see a slow moving truck or bike In August, I hate to see rains falling lazily They’d be dripping without strength, so crazily Boys with sagging ass makes me mad Can they ever, I wonder, make a good Dad? Proud people are so full of […]

Who Am I I am Nife ‘s sister Dooshima ‘ s mother Ethan’ s grandmother Dimain’s aunty Ayeni’s daugther I am A dancer A choreographer An entrepreneur A play Director I am Tall Fair Attractive I am exuberant Flirtatious I am Me Bose

He is jealous and all the firstborn of the world He wonders why men wonder what he wonders He hears the cries of unborn children aborted He sees the deepest creeks of man’s heart He wants for us to follow his son He is jealous and all the firstborn of the world I pretend I […]