The love letters are hidden away, placed neatly in a drawer that is hardly ever opened. Shut away in that dark space, never to see the light of day… just like the heart you so callously discarded out of that window of that moving car you call your soul. And you mumbled out a half-hearted […]
I have been thinking of you a lot lately. Unusual. I usually think of you as your anniversary date approaches, meaning early November. So this is early. Perhaps because I have been contemplating this idea of fairness in life. It wasn’t fair how you left, when you left, that you left at all. And I […]
When you sit down and think about where you’ve been, it may come as a surprise to realize how many versions of you there have been. I miss being in high school in Kenya, where the only things that mattered were that letter from an admirer at a neighboring boy’s school, Drama Club competitions, and […]
It has been a whirlwind of emotions lately, unexpectedly jarred into place by the unpredicted, clarity about it all suddenly coming into focus. Missing your voice, your time and your energy.
Just like those old videotape cassettes from Blockbuster, my life’s mantras include this phrase. Be kind, rewind. We have a number of encounters daily. We pass by, meet, bump into, smile at, sneer at, throw blank-face looks at strangers. We talk with friends, vent, laugh, swear with and sometimes at them too. We text, we […]
It crawls into that space left behind by broken histories and assumed expectations. It is the offspring of the marriage between anxiety fueled by a lack of reciprocity and the perception of fading effort. It bubbles up within, threatening to choke and displace the good feels sparked initially… And worst of all, it makes what was […]
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