Exhale….well it is time to break out the box…ok… the box was broken long ago…now it is time to live beyond the boundaries of the box….you will never know your true potential as long as you remain in your comfort zone.
Author: Sabreehna S. Essien, MPH
A Native to the Pacific Northwest, Sabreehna is American with Kenyan descent. Sabreehna holds a Master of Public Health and is a small business owner. She currently studies Marriage Family Therapy at Northcentral University and graduates in 2024. Sabreehna is a wife and mother of two boys. Sabreehna enjoys a good book, travel, fashion, nature hikes,
and time with her husband and children. Sabreehna dreams of building schools, health clinics, community centers, and affordable housing in rural parts of Africa.
Bitter Sweet…
The bitterness
of the past
spoils the gift
of the present
while casting dark shadows
on the future.
Together Again
Black Man
Thank you for loving me patiently, caringly, kindly
Please do not cease caressing me with your kind words
Baby… I like… how you call me to you
With your eyes, body, spirit, and soul.
I respond to you with all of me
Nothing will I withhold
Hold me close to you
Your heart beat sings to me
Your embrace fits me perfectly
Let me stay a little while in tune with you and me
The world stops
Frozen
While your love touches me intimately
I look up as your beauty your eyes wash over me
Baptized
Truth is I loved you the first time I saw you walk by
Like water.. tall dark African Prince… refreshing
Delicate
Like a dream and you touched me with your words
Embraced me with your look
Hello It’s Me
Loneliness comes at any given moment
Like a glorious horizon
A gloomy storm ahead
You never know what comes next
You insist to cry in bed
Your world seems so cold and dark
You feel all alone
Maybe it’s something to cherish
Even though you cannot bare it
Get to know
Who’s really behind those eyes…?
It’s ok to cry
Look at the brighter side
Happiness
Remember life’s fun times
Learn from your mistakes
Maybe then from your loneliness
You will choose to wake.
There is hope…”Stand By Me”
I was working on an application this morn and this song starting ringing in my spirit…may it bring comfort to you as it has to me. Cheers!
Veggie Delicious
Oh the sorrow
millions of veggies
languishing
in their attempt
to escape the plates of
Vegetarians world wide.
As the French say…
Bon Appetit!!!
Corridor of Possibilities…
My heart felt lifted as I gazed down this corridor of the many possibilities in the far distance.
Sankofa
Sankofa an Adinkra Symbol meaning: Turn back and fetch it.
“Se wo were fina wossankofa a yenkyi”
It is no taboo to return and fetch it when you forget.
You can always undo your mistakes.
Cape Coast
I visited the Cape Coast during my Cultural Studies tour in Ghana West Africa…there was a door that upon existing said “Door of No Return”…oh how my heart ached for my ancestors who passed through that door never to see their loved ones or homeland again. I stepped through that door, looked upon the Atlantic ocean, felt the warm sun upon my face, the wind whispering, and heard the crashing waves upon the rocky shore. My soul cried within me as I remembered them…tears gentle falling from my face…turning back to enter the door I forgave.
SABREEHNA S. ESSIEN 