One day he said to me: I never thought that after 20 years I would still love my wife so much. He insisted that we get married in church and pray before eating. I was also baptized. After 25 years, he got a new position, higher, in another city. I kept going to see him so that he wouldn't be alone there. He said that if I found someone, he would strangle me. Then he started drinking. More than ...

I wanted you to hold me I wanted you to lift and cherish me But in this silence I can only remember, myself being hit. I was standing in water, my stomach feeling the ripples, Standing close to the yellow raft, wish it had space for me as well, I never wanted to complain I being saved, was never in your plan But as a soul who funneled a bullet hole Pleads for a hand, to stay afloat on your yel...