Sabeel: A Path
This poem expresses the cycle of our lives; how innocent souls come to face the harsh and cruel world. They turn into monsters and the cycle carries on. But no matter how dark it gets, our souls will shine again one day.
An Introspective Look at Love & Self
“I am not too hard to love or too much; if anything I should be a reflection of the love I choose to have. I am loved and deserve the love I give. “
Imperfectly Perfect to Me
I am a woman in her twenties with big dreams en route to a beautiful destination and carrying her shitty ovaries, unwillingly, but happily with her.
I Was a Villain
I felt like I was a superhero being able to help everyone. But I wasn’t a superhero…
A Sunflower State of Mind
In my sunflower state of mind, there was peace, there was time and there was me.
Never Quite There
Musings on African identity: to mixed children, my thoughts go out to you as you would feel quite like me.
Punishment
Dissected, chopped and carved, like a butcher’s plaything / I am repeatedly punished everywhere I reside.
The Butterfly on My Neck
At age thirteen, it had grown almost to the size of my fist. / I began to resent it.
"I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay."
— Tracee Ellis Ross