It is a summer moment, that you give me
A peace, a sweetness, maybe a stop in time
The flowers in my arms, like the gifts you offer me,
Me with my back to you so as not to meet your eyes
And yet
You embrace me and without a word
I know what you are saying 
It's this choice we make, to be against each other,
That makes this garden bloom Where in the past spring no flowers sprouted
It's this sunny skin that nourishes all that surrounds it with its rays until the next bloom

Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal (exhibited at Cape Town Art Fair, February 2023)