To Love a Man with an OCD It is at times feeling you’re useless They have certain ways of doing things that if interrupted, can turn upsetting for them, and for you, like you’ve been wounded just for tending to a patient in a battlefield It is being in awe…

“It’s everything we can imagine and even more,” he would say to remind them both of how lucky they get. She’s never the one to budge on sentiments. He does. That night, as she stared at the deep dark, the leak in the corner of their humble roof just got…

Red streaks of growth, an angry thunder A signature of a depressed painter, painting pain And joy of life, given as surprise Oh lover of faith and irony Giving life like mother’s womb and breasts Opening wide and flowing witness A toolbox of what’s to come Living in a constant fear of being vulnerable Not realizing that she has grown a mane and a territory Out of a body of shell, emptied constantly, ripped apart, sewn back

They say you should find something that sets your soul on fire Baby, instead of setting your soul on fire, find something that heals Not only your soul but your broken view of the world Make it your therapy, make it your escape Bleed creativity to feel whole and healed

How to cope with the feeling of a failure before motherhood even starts — I am on the verge of losing my mind, or so it feels. I know your first baby sometimes chooses to get out way later than she’s expected to, but it is really hard to just sit tight and wait for the pain that people have been talking about to…

I’m a church roof with leaks in its corners, my wail is washed with the sound of rain, the end of the monsoon My body, is a space station, experimenting ways to open its door to waves of space shuttles to arrive and take off This is not how metaphor…

There’s no science to it; just don’t — I can’t believe how many times I got asked already about when’s the baby coming out. Simply put, I’ve had enough. I get that people are generally excited about babies, and of course, I do too because it’s my baby. Every time someone asked me, “Have you felt anything? You…

Is there a difference between emancipation and feminism? — Just a day ago, a favorite local singer that I grew up watching did a series of an Instagram story of a whole lot of questions about feminism and how she didn’t identify as one. Honestly, I read her statements and it was a big question mark for me too…

The sickness of being calculative to be perceived a certain way — For many of us who have settled down and built a semi-permanent home called family, money is both an object of trouble and breakthrough. Trouble, because without these paper trails, we can’t fulfill basic needs like eating. We can’t supply the life we should be able to afford and therein…