Tag: poems
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Beautiful lessons from plants about life
Sometimes you stretch toward the sun,quietly becoming more than you were yesterday.Other days, you are the soil,holding space for someone elseas they find their way up. There are moments you need rain,a hand,a voice that says, “keep going.”And then there are daysno one comes,no rescue, no answers,just you and the weight of it all,learning how…
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The hidden pain of an extremely broken fixer in life
I notice what’s out of placebefore I notice what’s whole.A small tear on your sleevepulls my attentionmore than the warmth of the coat itself. When you speak,I don’t just hear your words,I catch the pause,the slight shake,the quiet weight behind your voice,and something in me rushesto repair it. My mind doesn’t rest.Even when the world…
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The pain of not being seen by love
Have you ever been to a season wherethings just don’t work, no matter how hard you try,and every time your phone ringsYou already know it’s not about you? Have you ever been that person?Everyone runs to when life gets heavy,the one who listens, fixes, shows up,But no one really stops to askIf you are okay…
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No one is to be blamed for your healing
I once carried many excuses. They felt comfortable. They sounded reasonable. I told myself life would have been different If my parents had done better. I believed my background had already decided my limits. I blamed friends for choices that later became my regrets. Those thoughts stayed with me for years. They felt like protection.…
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Pain and pressure is a must in life
I used to have excuses. Plenty of them. To say, If my parents had done better… If my background was different… If my friends had supported me… And for a long time, those reasons sounded good in my head. But time has a way of sitting you down and speaking the truth you kept avoiding.…
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The Powerful painful Pressure Before the Wallet
There is a quiet pressuresitting on the shoulders of many young people today.Not loud enough to make headlines,but heavy enough to bend backsthat are still learning how to stand. Because somewhere along the journeybetween finishing schooland learning how to survive in the real world,a responsibility arrived early.Too early. You graduate with hope in your hands,but…
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The Raw Truth About Life’s Unfair Turns.
Listen… sometimes life just / happens. Not because you were wrong. Not because you were bad. Not because you didn’t pour every ounce of sweat, every late-night prayer, every shattered hope into it. You showed up, You fought. You gave it your all and still the door slammed. Still, the call never came. Still the…
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Bitter truth: Live Fully Before It’s Too Late.
I’ve been watching Ngeno’s last moments… and all I can do is sigh. One second you are smiling wide, Laughing from memes and posts, Replying to comments and calls, Making bookings like tomorrow is promised. The next second… time isn’t yours anymore. Death doesn’t negotiate, It doesn’t text ahead. It doesn’t wait until you’ve fixed…
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I deeply care about you, but am tired
Every time we sit down,the air changes. Not because I don’t want to listen,but because I already knowwhere the conversation will go. It begins softly.Then slowly,it returnsto the day everything was taken from you. I watch your face when you speak.It tightens in places you pretend are fine.Your eyes travel somewhere far,somewhere I cannot follow.…