Value
Value is a trivial subject We look at an object; We weigh it, feel it, judge it, We put purpose on it. Each pair of eyes Using experience and need to Define the physical object Before them How can we trust the value We are told. The products we see shelved How do…
Visions through crystal waters
I sit wondering about the life I am going to live. With visions of crystal waters, green and blue; Ready to awaken my soul To follow a purpose I feel destined for. The invigorating but smooth waters lift me up; Completely weightless. Glimpsing through my softly closed eyes, I find peace in this natural…
Forever, I am resilient
It’s International Women’s day. Today, I am celebrating the nurses, the advocates, the headteacher, the teachers, the social worker, the police officers, the lectures, the Mum’s and the sisters. This is the female army that enabled me to make the most important decision I have ever made, to leave a chronically abusive relationship. Feeling good…
Resilient and Weak
She woke every morning, she moved every hour, she slept when allowed. She did not consent to this poison. This intravenous drip providing enough poison to distract her perception of her self identity, rights and feelings. The initial sting of the needle, the discomfort of its presence made her speak up and act up; this…
Enough is enough
Despite my greatest efforts, my resistance against embracing motherhood as a full time job has finally imobilised me. I’ve told myself that I’m young enough to mother three children, have a full time job and a hobby. It’s taken me a good six years to crash and burn. I can sit back, telling my story…
Hardwork is my remedy
Over the past year, the very meaning of depression has become apparent to me. I have previously defined my experience of depression as ‘postnatal’ after all as a Mum of three children under 7, that seems like the less daunting reason for the way I feel. This would be completely justifiable in my circumstances and…
Married but Single
Freedom of speech and Equal opportunities – the very definition of the world we live in now. Not quite. The complexity of these social issues goes beyond the need for change.Within every individual case, there are barriers, different barriers for all. Like the mutation of covid, the fight for freedom of speech and equal opportunities…
Speak your Mental Health.
Depression feels like a loyal acquaintance. The friction of its presence sands me down gently, sometimes roughly. The gentle whittling of its character, transforms my physical self into sediment rock – unyielding yet fragile. My shoulders hunch forward and my chest draws in, as I protect my heart from the pain in my mind. Speak…
Confrontation
As an individual, I have for a very long time tredded the rocky path of avoiding confrontation. Whether it’s the fear of being hurt or hurting someone else; I have been weighed down on so many occasions. Weighed down by the words of others, weighed down by the fear of letting people down and being…
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