Featured Artist - Anna Mwalagho

Anna Mwalagho

Poem of The Month

Find the god in you

Am not afraid of you

Because I have seen your face couple times before

And you do not scare me

Have seen you creeping at my door

But you do not frighten me now

I have heard you roaring voice in the middle of the night

But that do not move me

I have seen you in my sleep

Your scary face, looking into mine

But this time I, am sleeping

I have met you on the roadside but this time I am not running

And when you try to steal my thoughts,

Invade my peace, distract my mind, and steal my joy

This time I will kill you

I will kill you because the last time

You broke my heart, my spirit, my mind, and my body

And you stuck me in a cocoon

Coz your plan was to reduce to a fool

But I burst forth, my bubble has always been inside not outside

So it never burst, and when everything was depreciating around me

I appreciated inside of me, coz I found wisdom and strength from within

And because a seed is the beginning of life I am ready to grow

Even though you have handed me some bitter lemons before

I am the queen of the lemonade corner

Coz I make lemonade, out of them lemons

So now I stand empty, stripped of all materialism

And indeed less is more, I am learning to cleanse the body and feed the soul

For when I meet the angel of death, nothing will be spared but my soul

So go ahead strip off my nakedness

Leave me bare, but this time

I am not looking back, not stopping and am not making any deals!

But I am marching into my peace

With my soul as bright as the gates of heaven

For I have found the god in me, and I love her!

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