Sonia Nkera

Month: October 2021

Last straw

Sonia Nkera, October 31, 2021

Isn’t it beautiful? The unraveling when the last straw hit the stack?

Sonia Nkera, October 31, 2021

Pour me a glass of my poison Will you lady T? He watches as she…

Sonia Nkera, October 30, 2021

And when you fall, you pick yourself back up It said so in the lullaby…

Sonia Nkera, October 26, 2021

The very best songs? They are the kind that trigger old memories. Joeboy is singing…

Sonia Nkera, October 21, 2021

“Is everything in your mind so grim?” No I have a happy place It belongs…

Sonia Nkera, October 20, 2021

And I was a Dame who fancied herself well versed in the ways of the…

Sonia Nkera, October 19, 2021

Nights I couldn’t sleep Daya blared loud from the headsets in my ears She sang…

Sonia Nkera, October 19, 2021

I play this stupid game in my head I play it when things get hard…

Sonia Nkera, October 19, 2021

I love my cloak of obscurity. It is a coward’s veil I know but I…

Sonia Nkera, October 19, 2021

I love poetry, I love words. I love that we can string them together. I…