It was eating him from the inside out. Four years of a privately waged battle that we knew nothing about, watching speculations and gossip fly about as his physicality drained from him right in front of us. Still, he remained silent. And the world talked. Like it typically does. It filled in blanks that it […]
Lulu is no more. The compound is very quiet. He hasn’t noticed. The guard and the nanny whisper about her, motioning silence with a finger on their closed mouth Hush. He kicks the football about, But does not notice the lack of barks. Lulu was escorted to beyond some unknown gates And what we have […]
Over the last two weeks, I have run into your closest friends. They did not recognize me at first sight. I don’t blame them. I have changed in the last 9 years. The last time they saw me was when we were lowering you into the ground in November of 2010. One looked old. I […]
It’s funny how an ending is never as beautiful as a beginning, when the credits begin to roll and the farewell music kicks in, the beginning is full of smiles, laughter and hope and the ending reeks of charred hope, dashed dreams and inexplicable feelings. The motors purr as the descent into the earth begins, […]
The newspaper said he was a man. But he is or was a boy. He had barely gone past the larger double digits that marked his second decade of life. The newspaper called him a man. His papa called him Junior, and he looked like he was all of 12. The newspaper called him a […]
She lost her father recently. And I do not know how to comfort her. Cliché after cliché bubbles up as I contemplate how to be there for her, To tell her what she wants to hear and not what I think the world wants me to say. Words fail me. Emotions overcome me. I am […]
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Love, Loss, and Life's Adventures
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