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Ann Turinayo is a Master of Education student at Makerere University , majoring in English language and Literature. She has taught in secondary schools such as St. Leos College Kyegobe in Uganda where she participated in editing the school magazine, has worked as a volunteer with the Civil Peace Program at Kabarole Research and Resource Centre, where she edited the peace magazine for secondary school students, ‘KISPA’ Magazine. She has also produced educational research papers such as ‘Historical Recitations among the Bafumbira’, among others. Currently, she works as a teaching assistant with Mountains of the Moon University , Fort Portal , Uganda .

          Again and Again

I fell into a ditch
I thought to myself
I must have been blind
So I told myself
Never Again!
I shall open my mind
I shall throw the gates of my eyes
Really wide
Look at the deep, wide and high
Never fall again
Yet I fall, again and again.

                Dreams

Dreams, I was taught by the sages,
Are not idle musings of sleep
They are active lives at the edges

Of our minds, that are made to leap
Out-
When we cannot live them out
Yet we fervently long to
Or fervently shrink to!

Dreams: life as we desire it,
Life as we dread it,
Life lived – anyway
When we dream

Dreams – how shall we get there
Others ask,
And how shall we escape? 
Yet others ask.