Shabani Kasongo

“But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore. He”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I have liv’d long enough: my way of life
Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.”
― William Shakespeare

“all i know is that i know nothing”
― philosopher Socrates

“your mother
is in the habit of
offering more love
than you can carry


your father is absent


you are a war
the border between two countries
the collateral damage
the paradox that joins the two
but also splits them apart”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey