Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
Warsan ShireI won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.
Warsan ShireLight attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
Warsan ShireThe sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.
Warsan ShireThe ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.
Warsan ShireMy name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning. Also, it's not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad.
Warsan Shire