How do you reconcile all the pain and poverty that rips into the beauty of our world? Our hearts walk on broken glass as we see the tragedies of our fellow brothers and sisters, miles away but close enough to touch us. We have everything while some have nothing. And even that gets taken away(…)
In Our Tears
Through restless nights and dreamless sleeps, our home riddled with nightmares and an oppression not soon forgotten. Humbled under the weight, a tiny fraction of what God has to bear, we plunder through the dark like blind who have just lost their sight. Suddenly, a resting place becomes one of fear and secret. For what(…)
A Silent Planet
There are days that go by where I do not hear a melody, and in those moments, I realise my life is monotonous, black and white. Then I turn on the songs that have been with me since childhood, and my world comes alive and I can dance again. I couldn’t live a day without(…)
Taylor Swift: Speak Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace
Selling over a million copies in its first week, Taylor Swift’s album, Speak Now, is emotionally laden and a mature reflection of what she has been through in the last of her teenage years. Strongly centred around the theme of love, Swift captures the mundane yet significant, once again. Through hard-hitting words and strikingly transparent confessions,(…)
The Sound of Flight
I love to hear the sound of planes flying through the night. I am under a roof, covered in the safety of my blanket, and darkness surrounds. Then I hear, not see, the familiar sound of a thousand winds soaring as one through the infinite night sky. There is something about that sound that resonates in my(…)
God’s Window
A land before the sun sets. Filled with grey mists, remnants of dreams and sighs, lush like a neverending emerald forest. The sky is eternal, painted by the hands of a great unknown. It looks over the earth like a shield. There are so many things to shelter this pretty marble from. Everything else is(…)
Evergreen
I simply love wintry days kissed by blue skies and embraced by golden sunlight. It is like a clash of summer, a tinge of fall and an enveloping presence of winter. There is Christmas skimming the fine, crisp air, you can’t see it. It is so sheer and fleeting sometimes you feel it, in your(…)
