These hands keep a score of everything.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThese hands keep a score of everything.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThis body belongs to all those who live in it.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIf home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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 ENYEGUEWhen will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
SUMAYA ENYEGUECan we just pretend we are wanted?
SUMAYA ENYEGUESelf Love is just me loving you in reverse.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEShame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
SUMAYA ENYEGUE