nothing quite as lethal nothing as contaminating as leaders who are insecure about their leadership placed in a position of power they spew out fear as an exaggerated means of control like a depraved shepherd promising protection whilst leading the herd to the slaughterhouse behind luscious grass well fed, tender meat reclaim your identity secure … Continue reading insecure leaders
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Loving You is Hard Work
Loving you is hard work Keeping up with your ego A tempest you are one day Calm and receptive the next Self-inflicted flaws For which you may incriminate me But yet I love you, though hard work As you age, not so gracefully Hopeful memories That the good old days shall be back And I will … Continue reading Loving You is Hard Work
RIP Garissa University College Students
How do I go back to normality? What is normal, even? Is God ashamed of us? I certainly hope so I hope destiny hadn't planned these events I hope our fate hasn't already been written Into the history books of the future I only hope humans have deviated from the course of humanity Because only … Continue reading RIP Garissa University College Students
A Season for Martyrs
Those who are slain in the name of God Do not consider them as dead And what then should we consider those Who are merely dying to live But suffer persecution in your name Unintended pawns In someone else's game Naive and unaware of their misdemeanors Uncomprehending of those rigid minds How do you permit … Continue reading A Season for Martyrs
Silenced Justice
while justice remains silenced hypocrisy acts as the instrument that deludes the ignorant and subdues those exploited
fingerprints of my words
my words leave their fingerprints indelible and uniquely mine if you tried you would recognise me only i write that way i sing as i alliterate pausing for the music, i question what appears mundane with precise, frugal phrases you, well... ... get the point my meek remarks hide a rage suppressed follow the pattern the … Continue reading fingerprints of my words
shades of reality
you who wear blinkers and shades of reality you are unaware yet on my door shamelessly you knock seeking the new term's vote
if only…
if only this world was big enough for all of us.... .....Wait! (Need I say more?)
war, for peace
Yesterday's prompt was War, for Peace. Here is my contribution: Seems like it's easier to go to war, for peace requires restraint, forgiveness, forgetting and moving on But which will make you happier? Which reminded me of what my younger daughter had declared (at age 7): Peace smells like ice cream And here is the … Continue reading war, for peace
Sweet Water
and so He hid sweet water deeper than the sea a reservoir preserved carefully for His creation ... have we even given thanks? I wrote this one a few months ago when I read about the discovery of fresh water reservoirs under ocean floors. His Mercy knows no limit. Pity about our short term gratitude … Continue reading Sweet Water
SONYA KASSAM 