by Tabitha N. Munyoki

I have limited your love
To the shades so transient
Put it in little pink boxes
Pegged on my grading of good
Of similar taste as that
Given by fallen image bearers
Thinking
I needed to scrub some more
Willing my soul
Begging it
To be a little different
A little less me
While all of me
Had all of you
Ingrained
With unfathomable love
Of a Son dead on a tree
Dripping love for eternity

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Dr. Tabitha N. Munyoki is a registered medical doctor currently working with Centre of Excellence HIV Management (COEHM)as a PMTCT lead in Kenyatta National Hospital-Kenya. She is a graduate of the University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences and currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health in the same institution. She is a Christian, a mental health advocate, bibliophile, and a budding poet.