"My Life Is Tears

"My life is tears

and a fond heart،

longing, a book of poetry and a lute."

_A Life by Fudwa Tuqan_

"حياتي دموع

وقلب ولوع،

وشوق ، وديوان شعر ، وعود."

_حياة لفدوى الطوقان_

(Artwork Night Fall by Quang Ho.)

"Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next."

-Virginia Woolf , The Waves-

(When you burn two matches leaning against each other, it gives rise to a tragiromantic dance.)

If their presence does not heal you or support you, then their absence will neither hurt you, nor drag you down.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac

Groping lovers:

You look at me

And I at you,

Your eyes wear an incomprehensible language

And mine are devoid of all language.

I do not understand you

But I feel you.

You do not feel me

But you understand me.

We look further, farther into each other

We unearth moments, details and memories,

It's hopeless, we taste the dust that remains.

And still the wall of silence between us

Is mightier than ever,

Yet our hunger for communication

For connection is mightier for ever.

Perhaps we cannot read each other

Perhaps the silence and all language

Is not enough to contain the way of love

We birthed for each other.

Perhaps we should part ways

And look somewhere else

into someone else

And there maybe we might find each other

Again.

But we must promise to cling into each other,

Mustn't we!

Or perhaps, let's be honest for once and ever,

That there's no perhaps for is in this life.

Let's turn back, hunch our backs in sorrow,

Look away.

Although we are meant to grope somewhere else,

I will always look for you

Anywhere

Anytime

For you are my someone and I am yours

And the way of love we birthed for each other

Is as otherworldly as ever.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac

(Artwork by Carmackart.)

"The need to lean on someone else comes from the inability to fix what's broken and to heal what's hurt within you. Do not drag your unresolved mess with you into your people for Love is not always prepared to save us."

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac

"The woods are lovely,

Dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep."

_Robert Frost, Stoping by Woods on a Snowy Evening_

(Artwork by Angel Boligán Corbo.)