It’s been a dozen years now. The date approaches, nerves and anxiety piling on I always expect November to be crappy because it is the month that I said goodbye to you as you were lowered into the ground. I try hard to smile and ‘think positive’ like everyone on Instagram says to do… But […]
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 […]
your cuts are delivered so effortlessly, landing with an outstanding precision, unexpected but extremely pointed… aimed right for the jugular, but slicing past the heart twisting upwards and forwards. the cuts are deep, leaving swathes of pain in their wake. you know what you are doing, you know the path and the destination, yet you […]
You shut the door. Firmly. I don’t have the energy to keep knocking.
The rain began to fall down softly, drops tapping gently against the earth. I never felt the urge to run or dash beneath an eave or leafy tree, like everyone else on the street. Instead, my pace slowed and I looked down, forcing my curls to fall in front of my face, to fight the […]
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