I have loved so deeply, yet I never felt that kind of purity in those who showed me loveI cared so intensely, yet never felt safe long enough not to care for myselfI honored those who deserved it and yet never walked in my own honorI held on to keep the peace, yet I alwaysContinue reading “Chirywrites”
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Loneliness
The lonely nights,the silence right after babies go to bed.The resounding silence when you can’t fall asleep because you aren’t tired enough,or you are think about something. Wondering how you got to this place,the place that you are alone.If you are like me and you made the conscious choice to be single then you’ll consoleContinue reading “Loneliness”
My best friend
Today I write of my best friend,a beautiful woman with an amazing soul. I don’t know where to start so I will just wing it.People talk about fights they have with their sisters and I have always wondered what that’s like.Then she walked in to my life and nothing has ever been the same.One yearContinue reading “My best friend”
Friendships
I advocate for being there for each other.In a sensible way because it really eases many of our struggles.Yesterday I had a serious migraine,the kind that makes you want to cry.So I tell my best friend and because health practitioners are interesting people she goes ahead to examine me.She makes a conclusion and recommends medication.IContinue reading “Friendships”
From the mouth of babes
My child has an infection.Its minor, however she needed mediation so I got her some.They don’t taste so well because it’s medicine.This morning am giving her a dose and she is whispering something.”I am brave, I am brave”. I am marvelling at the way she is calm saying it and takes the medicine without cringing.InContinue reading “From the mouth of babes”
DIARY OF MY TODAY
I am looking into the eyes of a child.Let me start from the beginning,I am sitting somewhere and across from me is a baby and her mom.She is about a year old and is being a baby,wants to play,wants to be held and is even trying to eat everything she touches.She keeps smiling at meContinue reading “DIARY OF MY TODAY”
Intentional living
I have learnt to listen,the exact time in which there’s a shift in energy I have learnt to he present.Like when I am bubbly and happy then my mood changes,I can almost always mark the exact time it happened.I don’t like to admit it most times but I also know what changes it.I have beenContinue reading “Intentional living”
Firstborn chronicles
Home is where our lives begin.It is where we learn to be earlier in our lives.For most homesteads firstborn came when the love was new or rather when the sex was just getting started.The truth is that most aren’t even planned,they just happen.So you wake up one day and you are holding a snack sweetContinue reading “Firstborn chronicles”
Intentional living
Maybe it’s meant to be,that you break your soul before you can grow with itThat you fall way below the bottom of the sea before you can aim at the skyMaybe you are meant to experience the painful lessonsThat make you question the meaning of life as a wholeMaybe that pain Is meant to teachContinue reading “Intentional living”
Mental Health Day
We speak different languages, communicate in really unique ways and express our needs in differently.More often that not we misundertand each other because we expect people to communicate the way that we do.For example I write,it’s the way that I express the things that I can’t say.I am also an extrovert so I’ll tell youContinue reading “Mental Health Day”
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