If souls could speak and the waves could lap at...
If I could question you without an unsure voice...
Of all the things I've learned
In this crazy life I live...
I was born and raised
in the warm heart of Africa...
I've held my deepest breaths in the shallowest...
and I can not say that I've missed vast oceans...
In the morning the sun will rise,
And then at night it will fall...
When she finally saw him,
he was two years old...
Her body is tied, twisted- her backbone
tightly woven around...
My defences are down
my adrenaline is flowing...
"When I stand before thee at the day's end...
Rabindranath Tagore...
A chance sweep of my left arm
in yellow and blue flannel shirt...
Took me a long time
to finish life's supper...
Tonight I'm sipping nostalgia bitterly
from a chipped mug. Hunched over...