"Nobody will ever love
a girl who is always angry...
Your words sting my heart
and imprint into my mind...
You've never liked me and that's okay.
Your words sting me, but I'm okay...
That hamlet where mum's lineage dwells,
Ancestral ruins, where silence swells...
When my life was so down low
You gave your hand to hold...
Sis, I know you're tired, bone-deep,
The endless cycle, secrets keep...
My friend has not been very well
He has a condition which affects his teeth...
Just over a year ago
my brother embarked...
Fell like a leaf, the world began to fade,
Silence screamed in my ears, only darkness...
Son I'm writing this poem
When you at my waist...
Grandma Esther
In your grandmother's embrace, you found your...
known quantity bereft of quality;
a name of little beyond its letters...