The C Word

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Exhausting

Is it?
Suffocating?
Is it?
Exhausting?
Is it?
Upsetting?

This endless
Yearning
This longing
For something
Maybe a thing
Or a thing
In a person
I can't tell quite.

But is it,
Exhausting?
Perhaps,
It shouldn't
Come so often
It shouldn't
Ruin my day
It shouldn't
Worry me
Cling to me
Like a curse
Of some sorts

This endless
Yearning
Longing
Perhaps
For his eyes
Or voice
Or hands

This endless
Craving
Yearning
Longing.
I wonder what it is
But this endless aching
I can't understand
What it is
But I yearn.

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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's 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, a hockey player, and a dancer.

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