If This Isn't Love, Then What Is?

It’s weird to grow up in a family where you know you’re loved but you don’t feel loved. And then later in adulthood you understand how almost impossible it seems to cross that distance and let yourself experience closeness, how otherworldly love feels now and how love feels unbearable at times. You flinch when someone tries to wholeheartedly love you. And over and over you see so clearly how you cannot be loved unless it's from afar and love is mixed with that familiar sensation of distance and coldness.

😩❤🥀

The desi urge to start wearing Anklets and make promise bracelets 🤍

I look at the same sky that rains on you <3

"Loving you is like having sunshine locked in my heart, little rays of love escape me and shine like stars.. oh darling, I feel you even through the dark. And as the sunshine escapes me, it starts to spark.. igniting my soul into precious, flaming liquid art."

You are a day of sunshine darling and you belong in my heart - eUë

Enomoto Seifu-Jo, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese

si vis amari, ama ‘If you wish to be loved, love'

You are my favorite person Dumbass

When Mahmoud Darwish said, "A University degree, four books and hundereds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'."

Mohabbat karne wale kam na honge,

Teri mehfil mein lekin hum na honge.

Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.