Writing

The buttoned-down ambiance of the conservatively dressed headmaster/headmistress mirrors the tight-fitting black blazers and gray slacks and red plaid skirts of the boys and girls filing past in the hallways of my old grammar school.

Losing Selena

Lost. Afraid. Scared. These words describe the beginning of my life as an enslaved person in the United States. 

What is time but a precious valuable whose availability is limited for everyone. Some try to capture it with numbers or to help track their accomplishments.

The United States has long protested against child marriage abroad, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. But we need to do better listening to ourselves and realizing what is happening in our own country.

Fall into me,

and make me agree.

The leaves turn red,

and disconnect from themselves.

Tell me I’m okay,

and that I have a life to live,

tell me I gave all I could give.

When I was younger,

I once awoke in the middle of the night

to a knock on my room’s door,

I got out of bed and put my feet to the floor.

There was a woman there,

she was adorned in a black dress,