Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIts okay if all you did this year was survive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBlack don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThe only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAre you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIt is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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 ENYEGUEYou are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESelf Love is just me loving you in reverse.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThe last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
SUMAYA ENYEGUE