Love./ Have you seen it?/ Do you know it?/

My name is Mpho/I am writing this letter/To congratulate you

There is something magical/About those of us/ Who escape death

He is a rapist…/Like the boys who force their hands into cookie jars/Even after they are told NO

I don’t remember how we met /What I am certain of though/Is it was not love at first sight 

This episode features Supernova Sarah - an Earth guardian, sound alchemist, reiki practitioner and chanter.

Death is silent /But there are a few people /Who give it a voice 

I remember/The day I read my poems to you/You looked at me

The younger poet in me / Once wrote /My hardest battles aren’t fought / With my hands /My hardest battles /Are a continuous 

It is an injustice / To harbor the belief / My heart is unbreakable / It is treachery / To believe/ My goodbyes /Don’t bulge my breath 

I wish my looks / Weren’t so deceiving

My friend / Recently admitted / The reason he doesn’t check on me often / Is because / His mind is incapable of envisioning / A pained me 

I wish I could go back to / My fifth grade class / And change my answer / To what I want to be / When I grow up

I wish I could sit / My 10th grade well-meaning English teacher 

My name is Mpho / A Sesotho name meaning gift / Gift because my family destined me / To be first generation / To break away from generational curses / First to graduate college