Nkem Light

If travel is like love, it is in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. - Pico Iyer

he said "never change " as if it was his only, and acceptable condition she replied: "i don't know which way I will grow. every day i fear how the sun will distort me; how it'll entice my petals to branch out toward it's light. every season I fear how the temperatures will change me; change my color and bountifulness, i'm certain I will change , so that's all i can promise. i just hope you'll continue to fall in love with me as I learn to fall in love with myself over and over again"

"I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams and I buried them inside you. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn't take no eighteen years to find out the soi l was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom." -Rose    Artist:  Vinc e Low Muse: Viola Davis as Rose Maxson Movie: Fences i pulled myself apar t; slowly  placed pieces of me in your soul.    within  the body of the man whose arms melted away my woes . never questioning whether  it would be the final resting place of my dreams  because i was  anxious to see them come into f ruition  through you.  how i hoped you'd flourish and I'd be able to propagate from you ;  b loss oming into  the woman i dreamed of with your aid.  how i hoped it w ould be  a temporary  place until i found  time in-b etween lo ving you   & becoming all the things you needed me to be.  y et, as i showered  you with every bit of light i  co uld   find w ithin my s oul , p