“The Story is a living thing”

A Review of The Messenger’s Favourite Colour Was Green, releasing on the 30th of August 2025.

The writer tells a narrative where the colour green transcends just the normal associations, it becomes a living symbol of generational love and transformation. It is written as the emotional and spiritual palette of legacy. The piece roots the reader not only in memory but ongoing love as well.

There is a cosmic bond between sisters that is written with such sentimentality. Their relationship is less about dialogue and more about gravitational pull, even in silence, even across time, they orbit one another with a love that feels larger than life. Sisterhood that is relentless in protection and mirrored dreams.

The piece is also profoundly meditative in its treatment of growth and mortality. There’s a quiet appreciation the way the narrator plants, prunes, and tends, not just gardens, but relationships, identity, and memory. The desire to nurture is deeply connected with the understanding that to grow is also to let go.

Ultimately, the story is a living thing. Full of with imagery, memory, and a light that refuses to fade. It reminds us that love does not end. It changes form. It blooms again. It is inherited in roots, and in stars, and in each new beginning.

In its rhythm and restraint, the piece reads like prayer and poem, reminding us that to love something, truly, is to want it to last beyond ourselves.

Written By Bongisisiwe Mbukwase Ndumela