Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBrown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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 ENYEGUEAlone is the safest I have ever felt.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAll I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEHealing can look a lot like violence.
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 ENYEGUESo sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThese hands keep a score of everything.
SUMAYA ENYEGUELove is more thicker than forget.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEDid our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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