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Hajah Kandeh

My Dear Boy

My dear boy, How are you doing on all levels – spiritually, emotionally, physically, psychologically? I know life has never felt fuller. You just turned 18, moved away from your home (though only a few hours away), started college and are experiencing…

Fire for Fire

What has come over me?This sudden reckless need to be seen through the eyes of God in his honey-gold gaze without judgement or condemnation a filter through which the past seems now only a ghost of my memoryI want this Buried beneath…

Play me like a song

Aqua and crimsonmidnight- black beads interlaced like lovers holding on for lifeis the bracelet encircling my wrist. Colombia. You handed me ten thousand years of civilization casually as if the world was yours to give  it was only our first date. Riding through…

Undressed  

What is it about humans that makes them so terrified of being real? Perhaps it is the fear that if we allowed ourselves to be fully who we are, no one would like us.   I was born in Sierra Leone…