I love myself.

It’s ok to be selfish so that you don’t break your own heart. You know, love songs are not meant to just be for those super sappy moments, with someone else who wants to be super sappy with you. Sometimes they are for you to sing to yourself in the middle of the night. Tell […]

Cheating hurts

Cheating hurts. It hurts because it’s a blatant declaration that you’ve been living a lie this whole time. All the things he said were false. The relationship was a fallacy, and you are a fraud. Every time you said that there are still good men out there is now null and void. Every defense. Every […]

DIY

She said: I was fingered once on my back in front of the maize cobs that waved in my mother’s backyard. I remember itchy grass and an uncomfortable feeling that something was poking somewhere I did not want it to be; something dry and scratchy like what a scarecrow boner must feel like. Only the […]

Akello

I have no time to be lied to by you.

I have no time to be lied to by you.  If you want me, want me, fiercely, wholly, under a thick spotlight of truth.  If you need me, say so, often.  If you want forever, then fucking commit.  If you want our dreams to be ours, forge them with me with magic and the harsh […]