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Category: Warsan Shire

The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.

eyes, sea, stay

all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.

night, phone, sun, warsan, warsan-shire

Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

apathy, grief, love, men, women

I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

beautiful, existence, feminism, self-esteem

[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you.

love, poetry, warsan-shire

Later that night she picked the polish offwith her front teeth until the bed you sharedfor seven years seemed speckled with glitterand blood.

poetry, warsan-shire

Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.