Let 2025 commence!

Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s to more exciting moments.

Feelings of breath taking delight

Moments that make you laugh till you feel light, like you’re flying.

Moments that make you smile till all the muscles in your face start to quiver.

Moments that make the passing of time feel like a burden

Moments that make the beauty of life clear – even if it’s a revelation as a brief as a solar eclipse.

For new visitors to my blog – welcome! Apologies to my followers since I’ve admittedly been a bit absent from my site. Partly due to time constraints over the last few months. But also due to a weird writer’s block that likes to hold me hostage every now and then. My brain hasn’t been entirely devoid of ideas! However, the ideas are fleeting so I need to start writing them down very quickly! In my mind already, I’ve probably written a thousand posts. But according to my digital footprint I well…haven’t.

Hopefully this year I can let my bloggish thoughts *hold space* and convert them into article goodness for you to read. I’m aiming for one article a week, so watch this space. Do let me know if you would like to read anything in particular. I’ve noticed, for example, that my Netflix TV series reviews tend to do quite well, so I’ll try and write some more of those for you throughout the year!

The Musician

‘Play us another song’ they chanted

And though he silently groaned

His heart longed to play a song to take them on

the journey of love and redemption he had traveled

Which had brought him to this very night

He strummed his pain with his fingers

And it lingered, warm and tender in the air

Palpitable through every family of notes he sang

When done, everything and nothing remained unsaid.

*Photo by Gabriel Gurrola on Unsplash

2023 is here – Happy new year!

It’s that time of year when people tie themselves in knots

Jumping through hoops of resolution

Which grow shakier with time

As they pick and prune themselves

Hoping to craft a better person

Than they were only a few hours before

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2022 was a wild ride, and it’s time to strap ourselves in for another (hopefully wild in a good way, of course!) Happy new year, readers! 😊🥰

*Photo by Dmitriy Zub on Unsplash

War of the Streets

We live in a city where dwellers roam the intersection of boy and man

Carrying blades close to skin

And the weight of a masculinity seeped in poison

Ego eats the mind, reincarnating itself as blood on the streets

Darkness which eclipses the heart

Dagger is protection

Person is foe

Two truths can exist

But in the end only one life can live

How did it get to this?

If we’re not careful ‘the grass is always greener’,

Is a mentality that can dictate our lives

Like an angry colonel, deafening and persistent

It turns split second smiles to plastic

It eats away at our happiness as we stand in the midst of it

A relentless fire that starts to burn the ground of your security

Perhaps, the grass is only greener because you’re scorching the ground

of the life-giving grass you already stand on.