Author: Frank(ie) Talk

• Teaching myself how to mourn

  Even my tears remind me of you. Of dangerously driven taxis in Ghana, with us chasing the morning sun. Then evening rudely cuts to the front of the line, dragging in air thick with melancholy after a day I can only name joy. My hand, glued to your knee. The evening sun sharpens your dark […]

  Frank(ie) Talk

  June 29, 2022

  Poetry

  break up, couple getaway, crying, heartache, heartbreak, Long distance, love, nostalgia, Poetry, Relationship, romance, sadness

• The mourning of my mourning

  You have concluded that your heart is done mourning. Because you’ve processed and reflected and cried and accepted to death, so you sit waiting for the wave to pass. But it doesn’t. It returns over and over, drowning you under it in one gulp, then it spits you out with more tears and reflections and […]

  Frank(ie) Talk

  June 29, 2022

  Adulting, Poetry

  break up, heartache, heartbreak, Long distance, love, mourning, pain, Relationship, romance, sadness

• Uthando luphelile

  Reflections on the end of forever My former partner and I broke up a few months ago. Since then, I have written plenty poems and notes/ reflections, cried funeral tears, regretted what I know deep down was the right decision and gone on Bumble (at the bidding of my friends) to remind myself that I […]

  Frank(ie) Talk

  June 26, 2022

  Uncategorized

  break up, heartache, heartbreak, Long distance, love, Poetry, Relationship, romance