How do I show the people I love the light that shines on me when I behold their lights? How do I explain that everything I have become is a consequence of their relentless love for me and my tenderness? I want to capture their beauty and reflect it adequately, and am restless until this … Read more
Winter rampaged their home and took residence in their hearts. The group spoke under the ebony sky. From warm bellies, what used to be unutterable thoughts ballooned into the room. The smoky vapours billowed between hurt mouths until it plummeted into the fireplace. That night, the group slept with their usual fiery energy, but a … Read more
Ever since I was a young girl, my mother taught me to ask myself this question: What did I do for someone else today? In the latter part of my twenties, that line has stuck with me and it’s something that has more meaning now than ever before. Have you heard of the Life Esidimeni … Read more
this one’s for you to the poets, the artists, the misfits and the readers who bring our stories to life I raise my pen to you to the kids who got bullied in school for being different the soft souls that got tarnished to the pure in heart and the vulnerable the innocent, the abandoned … Read more
Her streets are paved with stories from faraway lands. The cobblestones have heard the echoing cries of sorrow, war, disaster, but also of love. The walls of Gaudí have beheld the prayers of desperation and have gazed over the grief of its people. On a lone hilltop, the symbol of the Messiah watches over the … Read more