#lessonsfrommyjourney

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Finding My Voice

I went on a search in the stillness of solitude, Looking for the whispers of tales untold,My words yearning to land on a unique set of pages,A beautiful symphony waiting to be unveiled…Through the labyrinth of my mind I wander,The ink from my pen flows like a river unrestrained,As each sentence germinates into a stepping stone,Leading me closer to my place of belonging…With my pen in hand, I…

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The Spineless Creeps 🥱

An experience we as daughters of the soil dread is that of being undermined by a fellow brother and thrown under the bus by your male counterparts, with the assistance of fellow daughters of the soil who are driven by greed systematically planted within their minds. Individuals draped in rolls of fake activism and sympathy have wormed their way into the tail of a movement formed to represent all…

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OUR NAMES ALSO HAVE A STORY TO TELL

OUR NAMES ALSO HAVE A STORY TO TELL

I remember asking my father why they gave me an English name, he chuckled and said I could always just stick to my first name. Growing up when teachers struggled to pronounce my African name, they would resort to using my English name; that did not sit well with me and I was yet to learn about how our people were forced to take on such names so the system could notice them. I would deliberately…

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My Tower Moment

When everything seemed to be going south in that relationship I thought was solid and built on pure intentions, negative thoughts began to swim inside my head corrupting my mind with anger and vengeful ideas.You see no one is ever really ready to swallow a pill that may uncover the mask that had them believing in an inexistent fairytale, I never really knew the people I claimed to have known and…