“I know this path like the story beneath my name,
I know it much like the pulse within my body—
a dance with destiny in a shapeless room full of men.”
In this chapter, we all wear the crown of defeat,
sculpted from reality’s broken hopes.
Love is not a contest to win. It’s all but a losing game.” Continue reading Archaeology Of The Heart
Image Credit: Eric Pat Noudes/unsplash Untold stories lurk around a black boy whom before daybreak, mastered the language of ghosts, whose palm now weighs the weight of forgotten prayers but remains unbroken. How he traced his scars, charted their paths, sketched out answers where the world left him dismayed. Untold stories lurk around a black boy who wear flaws like purple linens—his kind of riches. A boy who seeks not his reflection in mirrors but pieces of wineglass picturing … Continue reading Unbroken
Image credit: Evie.S/unsplash Your aura teaches a boy how to blossom into a flower, how to wear a new form—one as soft as the body of water. This boy, once solid, has become a tender delicacy, yearning for your taste. Once fierce, now still. Once astray, now on track. Say, I detach myself from this lion’s fur to become a dove, to lay in the cradle arms of love, and call you … Continue reading The Aura Of You
-Tukur Ridwan Our bodies are scales on which the weight of our skulls finds balance. As the sun penetrates my follicles, my head crystals the reflection Of invisible entities. Each head is overflown with the weight Of burdens camouflaged in thoughts, and in musings. You do not need to break open this cranium To know how water seeps into the coconut. This mystery makes the head the giver and taker of all. Bearing joy and gloom, I’m OlĂłdĂąmarè’s mystery tarot Whose silence grows— you could … Continue reading OrĂ’s Appraisal
The last time a storm brewed around this area,
It started in my heart.
The trees danced and swayed and shook
Like tall monsters howling
Baskets, buckets, clothes wiggled in the air
Like a tornado Continue reading Towards Nostalgia
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