#poetry
childhood ever-present in adulthood.
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Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
you are my religion
What light what summer light
That illuminates the leaves
While clouds hump gray
The pigeons clapping in their flight
From under eaves
هذه هي المفارقة في الحب - شخص ما يمكن أن يكون كل شيء لديك ، لكنه لا ينتمي إليك.
“that’s the irony in love”, I said. “Someone can be your everything, yet doesn’t belong to you.”
— memoirsofbilal from the book Perpetual Flaws
أصلي من أجلك وآمل أن تصلي من أجلي
some nights when it’s tahajjud, I pray for you and I hope, you pray for me too.
— memoirsofbilal (via Instagram)
يرجى أن تكون أي شيء سوى محاكمة لشخص ما
please be anything — but a trial for someone
— memoirsofbilal (via Instagram)
كيف تنسى التي بكيت عليها بالدعاء؟
how do you forget the one — you cried in prayers to have?
—memoirsofbilal from Perpetual Flaws
لدي عمر أعيش بدونك ولست مستعدًا لذلك
i have a lifetime to live without you and i am not ready for that
—memoirsofbilal from Perpetual Flaws
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as the year ends
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I waited for this for months and it’s finally out now.
“I loved you unconditionally, but you gave me so much in return. I loved you yet couldn’t make you happy, but you gifted me with hurt and sadness. You gave me loneliness, denial, chaos, guilt, regret and all the things I didn’t expect. It seems like you gave me more than I could’ve ever given to you and I only had love, which wasn’t good enough.”
— memoirsofbilal (via Instagram)
“Sometimes, you lose people. People who promised to stay — walk away, right infront of your eyes and there’s nothing you could do about it. As much as you hold onto them, it hurts until you let go. And you lose yourself along with them. Sometimes, you lose people and they say, it’s for good. Sometimes, you lose people you wish you didn’t and sometimes, you pray they stayed. Sometimes, you know the reason but other times, it is what it is.”
— memoirsofbilal (via Instagram)