A Death in the Family

While the title sounds like a poorly casted 80s movie, it’s really my life. My grandmother passed, on Monday. I never took notice of how different it is for Caribbean people, culturally. We kept a Wake at my uncles’ house, that no one had to announce. After I heard, I started to prepare for the…

The Night

Her kiss was the flavor of sin that tempted the light to fallBrown eyes devoid of liesShe beckons out of the darknessMirroring your true desires Staccato heart beat drumming in your earsTo see her is to pay reverence;Head bowedOn your kneesThe void in her absence amplified by the wholeness in her loveDeath was built to…

Struggling with Mortality

I start my new years resolution on my birthday, December 29th of every year. Usually, I take that day to reflect on my life and how far I’ve come in 365 days and start to set goals for the upcoming year. A few days before Christmas I got some disheartening news about my Grandmother who…

Death’s Dream

Clothed in the night, she walked amongst the hidden tribulations veiled thinly and pressed firmly into the world. Her eyes reflected only the stagnant light of stars long dead as she descended. She was the embodiment of darkness, skin rustic and ruddy that greedily soaked up the sun and glimmered like the full moon. She…

I Remember 9/11

Everyone I know that was in New York at the time of 9/11 remembers exactly what they were doing the second they heard. I was getting ready for school, fresh out of the shower I turned on New York 1 to check the weather as I usually did in the morning. Waiting for the weather…

Of a certain age…

I’ve officially gotten to that age where I’m looking for meaning in everything in the past; bastardizing Facebook to get back in contact with friends that I casually walked away from and I’m looking forward hoping that life’s lessons and the people I have around me will help me move forward. The people who were…

Mortality

This week I’m forced to accept that my life may not be as long as I orginally thought. As someone in my early twenties, the common misconception is that the young are invincible. I woke up to chest pains two days ago, out of a dream I believe, of heartbreak. I got up, determined to…

Transitional Thoughts

Death bring me back my god my faith Judge me bring to me heaven on my knees I believe