France has changed me. So many people have mentioned it to me but I have never believed it. Oh no, I tell myself, I’m still a foreigner in the land of cheese and wine. Their ways are not my ways, their thoughts are not my thoughts. Until today. Until I…

It would haunt your nightmares for years to come. The boys and girls surrounding you, refusing to let you break through the circle they had formed around you in the centre of the Zimbabwean High School’s corridor. The buildings of the School named after a long dead Irish Saint had…

Watching the recent looting that erupted in South Africa last week, I remembered an experience I wrote about almost ten years ago… “We tend to put people in boxes. We see someone trying to make a few rands by, as you gave as example, helping people park their cars and…

He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” Luke 10:18. Darkness. Complete and utter darkness. For a moment panic threatens to break the dams of his mind but only for a moment. Anger kicks in even before panic has time to set root. He is a Power. Nothing…

A tale of love and loss, of bittersweet memories, joy, and the indescribable pain of first love. — Do you think of me before you go to sleep the way I do? Do you think about me when you see a beautiful sunset, shimmering across the heavens, painting the sky in glory and leaving you breathless? Does the night sky remind you of those nights we would spend…

Even the greatest, most powerful and cruel of men will be brought low by Death — The stars shine darkly, the heavens weep, They who were once kings have fallen. The blood of ages has begun to seep, Through the fabric of time unforgotten. Forgive, perhaps but forgotten never, Regret always, but undo? Forget! For now, always and forever, That which you began shall beget. The…

There is a garden. And in the garden there is a tree. A tree as tall as can be. That reaches to the brink of heaven, With leaves as green as emeralds, And bark as tough as stone. …

What you did when you left was less of leaving than it was of running. You fled. You hit the road. You ran as fast as your two legs and as far as your passport would carry you. You packed your bags and you left. Told yourself happiness was waiting…

I want to die with a silver bullet in my heart, Under the light of a silver moon in the night. I want to die just as I was born at the start, To abandon this life as it came, without a fight. I want my heart to bleed as…