Monday, 13 July 2020

3am rumblings.



the friendship root. 


my parents bore me in the darkness of the buganda tribe 

in a mud hut short of life 

because the straws that made up its roof withered like their love eventually would 



i tell you 

this 

because 


i deleted you. 

from every part of myself that you ever touched 

from every dream you ever delicately whispered into my ear 


we became lost to each other 

in the fleeting time 



gravitated 

to

you 


i was wrong. 

i wanted to believe that we were the same level of damned 

desperate to believe that our rotten beginnings would be enough 

to drown out the one sided forced interactions, crappy silences and uninvited smiles 


this is what i know 

of my mother and fathers life in love 

of the things the human race mourns about... mourns for, and after 


life is so long, you will not be the only one that i fall in love with 


when we were young we always got into a relationship without much thought

but learnt to grieve deeply when it was lost 


but we were better at hurting each childishly 

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