Sublime

To go back home is to wrangle with who you are against who everyone thinks you should be.

and live to fear another day.

Which is to say there was more life in your hands than you expected.

How strange a life you and other Black people lead, forever seen and unseen, forever heard and silenced.

It’s always caught between somewhere, something always lost between expression and emotion.

In the times we didn’t know ourselves, we always had each other; when faced with the unknown, we could lean back into the familiar, knowing each other’s hearts, knowing each other’s intimacies.

Sadiq Khan.

Her life is informed by loss but because she’s lost, she loves and loves freely, openly, with all she can.