I trace
My fingers
It lingers
Blood between my teeth
From slaps

I trace
My fingers
Through lines
Of memories
Through boundaries
Of childhood
Isolated
Messy
Sad
Sometimes,
Lonely,
Sometimes,
Happy and creative
All the times,
Pain.
I say,
Oh, messed up times
But, I say
It could've made great scenes
Perhaps,
Movies,
Perhaps,
Passages,
Of books
I laugh, painfully.

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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.