Category Archives: Love

Love Across Ethnicities; #mybukusudarling

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Kenya is ablaze with a story about an Indian girl from an affluent family and a Bukusu boy who used to wash her father’s car, and how they fell in love, illiciting all sorts of reactions from Kenyans. Folks cannot believe that wanapendana! Not too long ago in the US, interracial dating between Black and White individuals was […]

Love

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Let’s talk about love, that feeling that everyone strives for and some attain, some avoid, some destroy. It is supposed to heal the world, give you back yourself,

Extinguisher

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Fire’s out, blown silent by  a cold wind of indifference and snuffed out by the weight of those promises of tomorrow that never came to fruition. Wordless farewells that  steam cold from the leftover ashes, painting the sort of departure that stains a soul and kills the flames from the top to the bottom.

Invisible

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He put out his hand to stop her. All he grabbed was air. She had whipped by, leaving in her wake, the strong scent of vanilla and that closet smell that was particular to her. He had once spent an entire afternoon inside that closet, rather than going to the university to work on his […]

Something

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There’s something here. I am not sure what it is, but it feels really good and right. This something has me happy, has me smiling most of the time, and it has to do with you. There’s something here. I see it in your glance and I feel it in your touch. What we do […]