Of Love
Falling in love
a flowering of the heart
an opening
a stretch out the world
a sunflower caught in the sky
two eyes closed
a tongue
searching for the sky
for a drop of rain
and the way it curls after finding it.
Falling out of love
a shedding of the heart
a soft wrinkling
a scar
the crisp cool air
that licks the musty room clean after a storm
a closing window too
which must be reopened
for the heart to breathe
all dying isn't sad
there is the dying that precedes the living
and that's the secret kind.
Ketty Nivyabandi
Ketty Nivyabandi, born in 1978 is a Burundian poet and essayist. Her poetry, written mostly in French and English has appeared online and in several anthologies. Ketty Nivyabandi is popularly known for her significant role in political activism in Burundi when in 2015 the country’s president sparked unrest by illegally bidding for a third term in office.
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