Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEShame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIf home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAll I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
SUMAYA ENYEGUELoving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEOf all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWomen like me bleed on command.
SUMAYA ENYEGUENothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEShe spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThis body belongs to all those who live in it.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThese hands keep a score of everything.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIts okay if all you did this year was survive.
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