Category: Love Lessons
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Lost Love
I may never call you again or throw myself at you, but when I am still, quietly taking in a moment, my heart subconsciously reaches out for you. My heart calls out your name…Your name is engraved somewhere in my heart…In a way, I will always love you…
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Are they?
Many a man does not have a girlfriend, yet a girlfriend has him Mokokoma Mokhonoana “Many a woman does not have a boyfriend, yet a boyfriend has her.” Allow me twist Mokokoma’s saying abit for I believe it’s the case for a great percentage of opposite gender best friend relationships. In many such bestie relationships…
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Midnight Sun
Through her window pane, she watched him grow. From a little boy skating from school to a handsome teenager graduating from High School. By simply watching him, she fell in love. But he was beyond her reach. They were separated by the brightness of the sun. He was the prince of daytime and she was…
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Joyful Noise
You see four faces making a joyful noise, clad in their Sunday Best with confidence and energy oozing out of them, I see so much more. I see those four as a small fraction of an entire community. A community of believers who have seen it all. Death. Fighting for power regarding who would fit…
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A Walk to Remember
Hers was a kind of love that would slowly find its place in his heart. Hers was a kind of love that turned high school bad boy into the most committed gentlest of lovers. Jamie’s love would completely change Landon into a romantic, a sweetheart. Landon would fulfill Jamie’s bucket list with a heart purely…
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A Must Read
“The two ridges lay side by side. One was Kameno, the other was Makuyu.” I remember the first two sentences of Nguji Wa Thiongo’s The River Between like yesterday. Those words have been lingering at the back of my mind since I read today’s prompt. The first ridge would symbolise the ways of the black…
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Love Lessons from Little Lizzie
Though she talks not, yet has she taught me how to love her well Gracefully she walks onto my laps and coils into a comfortable sleep if luck is on her side and am seated near a sleepy Little Lizzie Playfully she seeks me out when she desires a playmate. Am never surprised when I…