Naomi Shihab Nye, from Fuel: Poems; “Hidden”
[Text ID: "If you tuck the name of a loved one / under your tongue too long / without speaking it / it becomes blood"]
everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever
like this Changed Me
training by Diannely Antigua
My Species by Jane Hirshfield
Look at you, Wiping your own tears With the same hands That long to be held
Ayesha Zahra
“The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind”
-Rodger kamenetz, from Terra infirma
cant stop thinking about this this was sooo crazyyyyy
bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.
because everything else in your life will fail you, including yourself
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