I have seen mothers bleed their eyes out; I have walked across women enslaved in a whimpering heart, I had heard from my grandmother; That the moon came home before my grandfather, And I also heard how the whole world trembled; Every night my grandfather walked into the abode. My eyes could see it in [...]
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A Lesson Grandfather Taught Me ~ Fadlullah Balogun
I’m standing on a Cliffside guarding this border, my diary in hand, looking unto yesterday - a time when I wanted nothing but death. O body! How have you grown! Away from negatives, all strengthened as I am in this momentous adulthood. I owe God today and the father that fostered me. * Yesterday, I [...]