LIVIA'S BOOKLET

My soul is happy It is overflowing With Joy and love Pure positive energy. My soul is happy It is flourishing Incorruptible and in strength Pure positive Courage.

My soul Is so sad I am Dying Sick of crying Tired of trying I am Smiling But inside I am Dying For my soul Is so sad

If time exists in heaven, Do you also rise with the sun? Do you also share breakfast Before your day has begun? Do the heavens hear your laughter As you sit and reminisce About the times we had together And the moments you shared with your friends? And daddy dear, do you still take walks Along the heaven's seas? And when you gaze upon the surf, Do you remember walks with us? I carry you inside my heart, You are never far from me, I see you in my smile And in who I am growing up to be.

I am a woman who feels very sentimental today, There is a man whom I once loved very much, The man whom I met when I had nothing much or life experience. I met this man when I felt sorry Because I couldn't meet up to the standard of his lifestyle, When I felt sorry for I couldn't make up my face and dress on high prices Like the rest of the girls around him. I met this man when I had no courage on myself When I knew nothing but loyalty and honesty, I worshipped the ground he walked on! When I was so faithful and devoted to just one soul. But one day, that man said he couldn't handle me anymore And he left! He left me shattered and broken Wordless and agonized He left me lost and crashed my trust My loyalty, my honesty on instant.

Star-kissed The sparkle of his eyes Beyond mere beauty That of something higher Is it  Kindness? Or Divinity? Something of endless absolution. Moon-Wished When I look at him My own heart reflected upon Laughter, mirth, compassion All wrapped up In the package of his gentle smile. Sun-born In him I see everything Blessed Simple I suppose that's why I got to meet him A magnetic force pulled me staright away Right to my soul brother.

Being 22, I much knew what getting into intima cy was all about. I didn’t need a dictionary to make an explanation to me. I tried to give myself all the reasons why I didn’t need to sleep with Oga Timo, a man who was the size of my father. There is one interesting fact about girls and money. G irls will always be girls when it comes to money. Maybe I am wrong, but at the thought of the l iving shadow I had been, I needed that money to show off especially to those that made my life miserable. I had to show them that I was the happening girl of the time. I shut my eyes and never minded of what was going to happen in the next minute or be it an hour of my life. The other me wanted to just escape and go back to Zomba and live my normal life , b ut that was one greatest mistake I was going to make . If you were in my position then you would clearly have a view of what I meant. Accepting to sleep with Oga Timo in exchange with K300, 000.00 was the least I could do. My inno

T he very first days of my college life were very unbearable . With imagining how my fellow year-o’s used to dress up and treat themselves for lunch ,  I couldn’t even afford a standard meal from the  college's  cafeteria. Poverty taught me to live the hard way. Tiyamike was my name. I was the first born in a family of seven. My parents were tea pickers at Chitakale Tea and Coffee Plantations in the outskirts of Mulanje district. The number of children in my family always kept me wondering why my poverty-stricken parents kept on giving birth . Happening to be the first child, miracles fell on me, and I was the first in everything;  the only one who got selected to a national secondary school , and also the only one who  at 22 was handed the privilege to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration at  the Chancellor College .   Luckily enough the company  my poor parents worked for  had offered to help out with the tuition fees, thereby lifting the heavy burden off their sho