Marieke de Koker

I have been greatly humbled by love. I tried to avoid it like the truth I didn’t want to know. I tried to run away but could not outrun my own shadow. I tried to kill it, but it grew back twice as strong, I embraced it with open arms and I've never been more wrong...

I screamed. And screamed. In a diamond strong rage forged by mountains of force and bleeding earth. I screamed, "ENOUGH." To my darkness: You do not own me. To evil: You will not rob me. To my...

By the time I was free to be myself, you were long gone. Distance is a wall and silence builds it brick by brick. And now, where are we standing? Between gaps in time, the words always come too late. Oh, how I wanted to show you all that I am, all I have to...