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Màámi.

Reading time: 2 minutes   Maami, It’s exactly a year since you’ve been gone. I still wonder sometimes, how it happened. How unprepared and lost I was when you departed this world. I’m all grown now though. Even if I had to grow 3 times faster than I originally am. I am taking care of myself like I promised […]

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Earlier in April

Reading time: 2 minutes “I love you!” , I had shouted into the phone. Partly because I was frustrated from constantly having to assert this fact and actually because I needed him to feel the force of my words this time and allow them to sink. “I know you do, babe. And I love you too. More than I […]

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I swore.

Reading time: < 1 minute I swore on the day that I said forever, That we would always be together. I swore to love you all the days of my life, From then on and ever. I swore to be your strength, I swore to let you be my light. I swore that I would hold on, Unto whatever you […]

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Towards the end of March.

Reading time: 2 minutes Secret. Knowledge hidden and intended to be kept that way. Sometimes, even from the people that love, trust and respect you. Family. Mine had been a closely-knitted one. Everyone knew everything about everybody. There were no secrets as far as we were all concerned. Everyone kissed and told. Hence, it had taken the strongest willpower […]

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I don’t remember..

Reading time: < 1 minute The kind of child that I was, I don’t remember. The things that made me laugh and happy, I don’t remember them. If I ever made my mother cry, I don’t remember this too. Whether I was a fighter, stubborn and strong-willed. I don’t remember. If I listened each time I was reprimanded for every […]