What I Like Of Him
What I like about this,
What I like about him,
All the effort,
All the love,
All the laughters,
All the tenderness,
All the care and sweet nothings.
What I like about him,
All the peace,
The calmness,
The gentleness.
What I like about him,
He is not a reader,
He might never know,
That I wrote about him.
What I like about him,
After this is over,
We will never meet.
We can't stand each other,
The burning passion,
The fire,
The urge to touch,
To kiss,
To hold,
To be close.
After it all turns on us,
After it becomes salt on a wound,
We will never talk of it,
We will never have,
To see one another,
Ever again.
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Gloria Nyagaka is Kenyan and just completed her Master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Engineering.
She has been a writer for six years now. Her manuscript is the biggest project she’s ever done, a modern romantic thriller, is in the hands of her literary agent. It is a book that expresses great female characters and the strength of a woman at large. She mostly campaigns against women violence and for freedom for women to choose. She also focuses on how great women have changed the world, Michelle Obama, Serena Williams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and others. She is a swimmer, a swim coach, a Taekwondoka, hockey player, and a dancer.
Women are angry - and justifiably so. It feels as though the world is fighting against us, with rights we fought so hard for being stripped away and the increasing rates of femicide. In the face of this, rage is not only understandable but essential. Jennifer Cox, author of Women Are Angry and cohost of the wildly funny and honest podcast, Women Are Mad, is one of the voices at the forefront of this movement, helping women feel safe and ok in their anger. Her book gives shape and language to our collective anger that has made us feel silenced and dismissed for so long.