The Covenless Witch

The Covenless Witch Ntozam

22/05/2025

When I look in the mirror and I see other people's opinions about myself I panic because I'm not looking at myself in the mirror but I'm looking at the many other people that other people see, sometimes I panic when I look in the mirror when I see my opinions about myself because I've been poisoned by the environments I used to frequent and have since frequented, I am struggling to see a reflection of myself and illness sometimes blocks that too but I won't give up, I won't stop searching.

22/05/2025

Everyday I wake up and set to work, the work is to reclaim my narrative, the work is to create community within myself, for myself, the work is to redeem my personhood, the work is to wade through all the externals and identify my own opinions about myself, the work is to cultivate a harmony and clarity in myself so that I can be okay with me, this is the work I wake up and set to doing everyday.

30/04/2025

I've always been fascinated by the genderlessness of people, the way one moves though life, the way we clothe ourselves in the comfort of private spaces, the way we speak or commune in personal safe spaces, humanities genderlessness is in all of the ways we land and float, without effort, without attempt but by just being and then the gendered things are what take an effort to do, you must make a conscious choice to gender it's choosing to do something or to not do something to be perceived or seen as that particular gender now this is not necessarily a bad thing it's just an intriguing aspect of living I've come to observe.

28/04/2025

I'm climbing into an era of self that speaks with certain confidence, I really enjoy the becoming I've entered it feels like home

The Covenless witch

28/04/2025

Ndisindwa zizenzo zabo, ndisindwa zizinqumo zabo, ndisindwa nje ndinzima nam, ndiyasinda...

The Covenless witch

28/04/2025

Grief knows us by our names, it has our personal email addresses and it knows where we live, it creeps up on us when in it has no one else to hang out with, grief is a promised certainty that we keep trying to run away from but can't, sometimes I relish feeling nothing, sometimes I just want to experience the world as a cloud in the sky untethered, free from gravity and away from grief's reach...

the Covenless witch

05/02/2025

When I look in the mirror I see all of the mothers in my lineage congregating on my face, my eyes stir the spiritual world, my lips and tongue conjure all of their curses and blessings, I'm the embodiment of their immortality, they will go on living in my daughter's face and her daughter's face, the mothers in my lineage are never going to die.

30/01/2025

Just a general FYI

I support women who misbehave, who rebel against the status quo,
who exist in deviation of the norm, infact I adore women like that,
women who scribble as apposed to writing,
women who paint over as apposed to colouring in the lines,
women who gulp their drink in one sip as apposed to 100 sips,
women who sit with their legs open, burp out loud, laugh out loud and stare uncomfortability into men,
I adore women who choose violence over diplomacy in the face of injustice,
I love women who choose violence over diplomacy in the face of ukuqhelwa ikaka,
I adore the queerness of black womanhood,
I adore the women who speak out of turn and spit at respectability politics, I adore women who undo borders and take down categories,
I adore women who enjoy the androgyny of being black unapologetically,
I adore women who fill up spaces with the scent of their rebellion and disrespect,
I love women who's bodies don't fit any of the moulds so they take up space to break moulds,
I love women who's bodies are as rebellious as their spirit,
women who's bare faces look like defiance and reckless abandon of respect, I love women who cast spells with their middle fingers
Women who survive witch trials with the fight in their eyes,
Women who defy gravity and all the other laws men have claimed and created,
Women who burn their cook books and pick up their beer glasses,
I adore black women who sit in their blackness without trying to explain it to anyone else because Voetsekini,
I absolutely, positively, austentaciously love them with all of my being!

- The covenless Witch

08/11/2024

Hello
I want to hold your words today
I want to make space for your screams and incoherent rants
I want to create room for your fists, kicks and head butts, today I want you to stop making sentences and instead give pain the permission to leave your body, demand it get off your bones and to settle into our bonfire
Today I want you to remember the child you once were and ask to borrow her spirit of letting go without fear, because I know you're afraid to let go of something that may take your memory with it,
Something terrible has happened to us and we deserve to release our feelings into the ether, to release trauma from our cells and to find solace in the saltiness of our tears cascading across our lips touching our tongues and reminding us that hypertension resides in these tears so release it, we deserve to scream into the abyss and not make sense, let's just be
Give your feelings names and let them out to play, let some of them go and find new homes but stop being a hoarder, declutter and allow yourself the freedom of emptiness, hear the echos call your rooms back into order and make way for new feelings to fill those rooms
Let yourself let go, let yourself float even for awhile
And then when you're done and you're tired and want to sleep, pour yourself a glass of water, drink, pray and then close your eyes to the sound of a comforting lullaby that is loves voice
Tomorrow is a new day and something else will try to kill you and fail.

- The Convenless Witch

12/10/2024

Whenever I look at my grandmother's picture I see all of her sadness
All of her smiles
All of her love
All of her determination
All of her fight
All of her ennui
All of her hugs
All of her protectiveness
All of her songs
All of her dances
All of her unfinished business
All of her accomplished things
All of her heart

Ndiyakukhumbula ntombi ❤️

12/10/2024

My mother is just a girl
A girl with hopes and dreams that she had to forget in order to feed us
She handed her unlived hopes down to us but we've never really cared for hand me downs so we threw them into the back of our closets and left them there until we outgrew them (or so we thought)
instead we went shopping for empty promises at the mall
I found my empty promises in the beds of disappointing lovers and in the pockets of fake friends
My mother is just a girl
she now knits new hopes for her grandchildren in preparation that they will be wiser than us and wear them to combat the storms ahead.

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