My Favourite Lines From The Pieces I Have Written So Far - Tumblr Posts
— fatima aamer bilal, from weeping flesh above the ground.
[text id: the design of this universe is so damned / i got to hold your limp body before i got to hold your hand.]
fatima aamer bilal, from in the arms of death, so easily.
[text id: they ask, “will it always be fun, wandering around like a loaded gun?” / no, but i never had a home, so i let myself be taken by the storm and slowly become one.]
fatima aamer bilal, from and we didn’t talk after that.
[text id: what wants to hurt you doesn't need to touch you / and i'm reaching until my last breath / falling in love is an eerie flame / and i'm burning to death.]
fatima aamer bilal, from i am the menace in my head.
[text id: and what's the very worst / being offered water when you're drowning or living by an ocean and dying of thirst? / regardless, i have done both. / i have lived both.]
fatima aamer bilal, from save me from me.
[text id: everything i write is a cry for help / but what will i say when they’ll reach my door step? / save me from me]
fatima aamer bilal, from i am the menace in my head.
[text id: they say you set the bar too high, i know, i am the who’s climbing it.]
fatima aamer bilal, from all that is damaging.
[text id: there’s always a home. / the one you’re running to or the one you’re running from.]
fatima aamer bilal, from even flesh eaters don’t want me.
[text id: i would knit my flesh into yours to patch up your wounds.]
fatima aamer bilal, from even flesh eaters don’t want me.
[text id: i want to embrace you so closely that our bodies would become one.]
fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky.
[text id: don’t say my name, i am already a mess.]
fatima aamer bilal, from save me from me.
[text id: when did your plam become a fist? / when did the touch of your hand become knuckles against my cheek?]
fatima aamer bilal, from land of trust.
[text id: love, your masquerade puts judas to shame.]
fatima aamer bilal, from you can’t save me.
[text id: and i said, “dear, darling, your shining armor is rusting. there’s no saving in a mad town crumbling.”]
fatima aamer bilal, from my back, your knife.
[text id: i thought the craft of treachery was unknown to you.]
fatima aamer bilal, from i would leave me too if i could.
[text id: i am nothing, but catastrophe riding on the wind.”
fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky.
[text id: please don’t say my name, i am already a mess.]
fatima aamer bilal, from even flesh eaters don’t want me.
[text id: i will know you in mindlessness.]
fatima aamer bilal, from i think i lost myself.
[text id: i have loved you like i wish somebody had loved me. do you know how hard it is to give something you don't have?]
fatima aamer bilal, from wounding is also touch.
[text id: this house is haunted by its owner, no wonder why nobody stays.]
fatima aamer bilal, from delusion is a prayer.
[text id: i feel so full of emptiness.]