Quite often than not,
Fairy tale thoughts invade and conquer my sparse crown,
Uplifting my entire being
Into pseudo glory,
A realm, where I am exalted,
A noble laureate,
A world’s best…
Embedded in the world book of records,
Flying on the wings of accomplishment,
Accomplishment itself…
A beautiful world.
A beautiful life.
I live, touch, breath its surreal scent…
And yet…
In a blink, in half a blink,
All vanishes through a solitary vanishing cabinet…
I fall and crush excruciatingly hard,
Back into the treacherous reality,
the double aged sword of reality,
Straight into my inconspicuous space
Where I am the emptiness in an empty space!
Yet I still can’t let go.
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Genevive Ahumuza, a freshly baked Education graduate at Kabale University in Uganda, is a passionate and resilient poet whose crafts; “Rarity”, “Carpets and Documents”, “Despair”, “Kongi’s Ninetieth Feast” have found a platform in ” Where Broken Hearts Go”, “The Unspoken Crime Scenes”, Vibrant youth voices exhibition and Wole Soyinka’s festschrift. Her love for writing is a ladder to scale the incredible heights of writing until she finds the hidden gem in writing. She writes to address, bring to light, and share various human experiences. It is her desire to hold the hand of young writers around her, and to support them in their path of writing as they share their talent. She is excited to share her work with the world.
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Read – As Old as Time – A Poem by Clare B W Okhabi – Kenya
