How the wilfully blind disappoint the mind and oppress the soul. — I am not impressed By those who dream up questions About the complexity of the world Enthralled By the subjectivity of everything How nothing is real How everything is just a concept All to distract from the greatest question that remains unanswered. With a powerful brain and living heart You…

the unspeakable has been spoken everything has been said out loud nothing too shameful for words nothing delivered with sugarcoating no need to let one down gently when the bottom line is bare-faced tragedy pain is taunted to show itself raw and unprimed to make an appearance every day in the…

Exhibit A: A comment in admiration at the appearance of orderliness, organisation and put-togetherness. Fact: This is true. The day I receive this comment for the umpteenth time, I look around my room at my lined-up books on their shelf, the scarves and niqabs folded into a neatly stacked fabric…

The decision is very simple, actually. It should be not hard to discover why one ought to hold a microphone for the silenced. But the world is full of hard statistics and hollow headlines, designed to detach human hearts from empathy, and societies are stacked in manufactured layers that mean…

Thank you. As God has willed it, just as 2022 is about to come to a close, I reached 200 followers. This time last year, I had 41. This is not a numbers game, and I hope to fight the lower ego that whispers to me that this is some…

Perpetual coming of age, on the fast-moving vehicle of life. My dearest friend has married. This I know because she called me to her house and we danced in a circle and sang that evening, filling her living room with our voices and our warmth sharing in her joy. I…

In a way, this was exactly the kind of thing running through my head at 17 - the need for excellence and exceptionalism, especially at a young age. In part it was because I thought I could be great, in another big part it because I felt I had to…