Sometimes all I want is to be alone. In a space for me. In a room. Quiet. So that my thoughts can uncrumple and unfold and unravel, crawl out of my brain, out the window into some wild dead forest where all tired things can lie down in the leaves […]
When my people ask me how my trip to the holy lands were, all I do is nod and say ‘good’. And I’m not lying, it was. But I want to say other things that I can’t. That I don’t know how to voice any more. Like I’ve learnt how […]
(Originally published for Al Jazeera Talk Online, 27 March 2011)
And so I blog publicly again after keeping this place in the shadows for a long time. I shared bits and pieces and kept changing the url so that my words would be lost again – the way words usually lose themselves as they make their way up the throat […]
A bank on a river (but we called it a sea). He worked in a huge fountain-building in the middle of the river (but we called it a sea). On the river/sea bank he looked at me and and asked me to marry him. A big glass house with glass […]
(Originally published Al Qalam newspaper, January 2011)
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You can love me and hate me at the same time, he said. I understand that, he said. I understand it all, I know it all. There’s no need for explanations, I know everything. I understand, he said Ghandi-like. Understanding. Understandable. Nothing is right. Everything is wrong. I feel like […]
Exhausted woman,Exhausted women You fall somewhere deep and dark, where no one can find you anymore Blistered knuckles from all them fights I see your scar, womanI see your scars, womenBattle scars,you carry with dignity,beneath your clothes ah, woman, when will you let your stitches heal?ah, women, when will you’ll […]
This has happened all before This has happened all before This has happened all before. And nothing happened.
