So as I send a prayer up to God, I get on one knee and look her in the eyes… I tell her I love her… I tell her she is my biggest blessing… I hold her hand and say the same prayer out loud –introducing her to the Man who has all the answers. Continue Reading
You make me feel relaxed on the X axis,
Where Y is equal to zero when I come across you
I feel as though I’m turning like a parabola and meeting you on the vertex Continue Reading
Love is easy and people are difficult. The complexity of human nature will sabotage our own happiness and restrict the flow of love in our lives, to what extent love is given and received. To love is to be vulnerable, which can mean being bare, breaking down the walls we’ve built over the years to protect our hearts. Continue Reading
When I was younger, I was told by a few people that I wouldn’t be able to keep a man. As a sort of insult – a warning that I would be miserable if I didn’t begin to view marriage to a man as the pinnacle of my life’s achievements. It had an adverse reaction and I was determined to find joy everywhere outside of the relationships I kept with men. Continue Reading
Family was us, she and I, picking up the broken pieces of our hearts,
Stitching them together with renewed hope, hope that all of these trials were testaments of the joy that lay ahead. Continue Reading
What IF?
I pour out a bucketful of tears
cry out my insecurities
bleed out my distrust and mistrust
let out the skeletons in my closet.
Would that be vulnerable enough for you? Continue Reading
But how much more than deceit can you expect from the son of a serpent? I’ll translate that into money then at least I’ll feel like I earned something from being the fool’s fool. Like a day’s wage in servitude. Continue Reading
Your death was unprecedented. It came at a time when you already recovered. You cannot be blamed for leaving the church yard—it is normal for any patient to be discharged when he or she feels recovered—and in no way should anyone think the opposite. Continue Reading
Your condition worsened with time. They took you from one point to another and did medical checks. Nothing was discovered. Then they took you to a local church in Ganta for prayers and anointing, out of the awareness that it was a spiritual problem. Continue Reading
They are the best Liberians I’ve ever met. One could find in them a mother, a child, a sister, a friend, a best friend, a player, a cheater, a teacher, a student, a hero or a villain; knowledgeable and experienced, doctors of minds and souls, children of good and bad, children of sun and moon, kids of experiences and lessons. Their future is beyond what the normal eyes can see. Continue Reading
