why is it
your eyes elude mine
when I ask
"do you still love me"
I know I've asked
this same painful question
a thousand times
and each time
your jaw sets
you shuffle your feet
then you clear your throat
perhaps the answer
has always been there
in the silence
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
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