the umbilical cord that ties me to hereven after i fled her to find peacewraps around my lungs and squeezes the air outi suffocate while living oceans away from her let me go, you were never my mother!a mother cuddles and coddles her childrenyou rained bullets on my childhood dreams, […]

i know why some caged birds sing. i know why some caged birds here sing with the caged birds there. i know why some freed birds sing for the caged birds everywhere. and i know why some giant free birds sing selectively, so cunningly, the song of freedom and justice, […]

She thought of herself as a treeUprooted from her homeRerooted in a new landLooking upon the native treesTrying to grow out of their shadows“Well, that’s not true!”She tells herself“I am a driftwood.”Floating on the ocean wavesFar away from homeSearching for a shoreShore that never comes She is driftingBetween the shoresBetween […]