Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy if you seek it through your self.
Ibn Ataallah (rahimullah)
The Pink Box, Yesenia Montilla
btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.
Kaveh Akbar, from "An Apology," in Calling a Wolf a Wolf
did we meet too early? i wish we met earlier
Eid Mubarak, I love you all, may we witness a free Palestine within our lifetimes inshallah
Heat Map, Richard Siken
Survival (1983–85) by Jenny Holzer
i carried your voice in my heart and viens
saw a woman comforting her sobbing child saying “i already told you, you have to keep looking forward, looking back just gets you hurt” and i thought she was sharing a beautiful life lesson about the importance of letting go of regret and resentment. but it turns out the kid just wasn’t looking where he was going and ran into a wall