if i knew what
safety looked like
i would have spent
less time falling into
arms that were not
Sayfa 18
“what am i to you” he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper “you
are every hope
i’ve ever had
in human form”
" i want to apologize to all the women
i have called pretty
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is the most you have to be proud of when your
spirit has crushed mountains
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re pretty
but because you are so much more than that "
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you were the most beautiful thing i’d ever felt till now. and i was
convinced you’d remain the most beautiful thing i’d ever feel. do you
know how limiting that is. to think at such a ripe young age i’d
experienced the most exhilarating person i’d ever meet. how i’d spend
the rest of my life just settling. to think i’d tasted the rawest form of
honey and everything else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing
beyond this point would add up. that all the years beyond me could not
combine themselves to be sweeter than you.
- falsehood
Sayfa 102
emptying out of my mother’s belly
was my first act of disappearance
learning to shrink for a family
who likes their daughters invisible
was the second
the art of being empty
is simple
believe them when they say
you are nothing
repeat it to yourself
like a wish
i am nothing
i am nothing
i am nothing
so often
the only reason you know
you’re still alive is from the
heaving of your chest
- the art of being empty
Sayfa 30
you treat them like they
have a heart like yours
but not everyone can be as
soft and as tender
you don't see the
person they are
you see the person
they have the potential to be
you give and give till
they pull everything out of you
and leave you empty