instruments of education
Too low pay
They are the backdrop of the world
They propel leaders, CEOs, valuable doctors, engineers and scientists
with ground-breaking works
They teach
They guide
They love
They are kind
Their teachings are the ones
that help us survive.
We grow
We heal
We are illiterate and blind
to the ways of the world.
But,
we can learn
we can read
we can climb
fight, to transform the world

Cold empty halls,
protective equipment
can it protect
the never ending hurt?

Besides teachers,
doctors are planters

Life is a fragile thing to toy with
but not too fragile
that it can't be fixed

Creative power
punches through in
blues
funk
rock
disco
'n' hip-hop

Passion bleeds out and through chants
still, and in beat

Jazzy gospel blues filter through the heavy rain
uplifted voices, they soar above the canopy and waving arms

AFro-punK

-ing flowers
wrapped around me
hidden thorns

Scientifically,
The heart doesn't really feel anything,
It's only the mind capable of feeling and perceiving

Yet,
We feel the heart sinking,
The left part of the chest hurting
(although the heart is at the centre)

Probably,
It's the mind playing games,
What we think is what we feel.

~ S.G