Fear of missing out

Originally published on https://uosstudyingabroad.wordpress.com/ There’s so much pressure when it comes to doing a year abroad. Other peers seems to be having the best time of their life travelling around the world, going to parties, making so many new friends, it can be so easy to feel left out and as if you are wasting these moments if you’re not […]

There’s a room at the back of the heart

There’s a room at the back of the heart, I tend to forget about it. Someone points to it. At the locked door, white paint chipping away. Once they leave, I break the lock. Water flows, not sure from where, it reaches my chin now, there’s boxes laying on the tiles below me, journals and boxes slip out, plants creep […]

The body as a mirror

I threw a cup at it when I was angry, I patched up the shattered glass when I calmed down. Pretty drawings of flowers stuck to the edges, Some days I cannot even glance in its direction, But I cannot ignore it is there either, It reminds me every time I bump into it. I compare it to other mirrors, […]

Artemisia

I think, therefore I paint, I paint, therefore I am.  There is a scene that I see reflected on my canvas, Before I can even begin dipping my brushes into crimsons and chartreuses, Of a girl punished for not wanting a love shoved upon her. She bears a sun on her chest, encircled by a viper, And my own burns […]