Squeeze

2018/11/27 by mkhana

The noose tightens, the air thinning, hands clawing, heart pounding, nothing remains.

The Stain of Silence

2018/11/27 by mkhana

You stole my voice, smothered it silent, reaching deep within me to strangle it dead. This you-caused stain seeps deep, over and around the broken pieces within, keeping the flatline alive and soaking sinking deeper with every promptly delivered broken promise and veil of invisibility that you forcefully drape over me and that only serves […]

Most Beautiful

2018/11/16 by mkhana

When the rain is coming down so hard, you can barely see past your nose, and the clouds hanging over you are so gray that they look like jet black puddles of broken smears… When the thunder of your own thoughts clashes and clangs, drowning out the lightning spearing out of your heart, and the […]

You.

2018/10/19 by mkhana

You. Nobody warned me that you would come around when you did; that day on that visa queue, I had no idea I had met my person. You.

#metoo in Liberia; The MTM Story

2018/10/18 by mkhana

Your voice is silenced by the thought that nobody will believe you. I read this article recently, authored by Finlay Young in Time Magazine. It is a long, sad, shocking story about trust misplaced, dreams deferred and very heartbreaking #metoo moments. The events happened in Liberia, a place where I once lived a decade ago, where […]

Pendulum

2018/10/17 by mkhana

I’ve touched both the sky and the depths of a fiery hell, fire licking at a strained heart, pushed to the limit with a pendulum of emotions. I have swung high up on a high wire with no net, and stuck my tongue out in glee, catching those snowflakes of happiness, icy with promise; pricks […]