Asmajelassi Quotes

“You blow like a wind,
And I swing numb,
Like an autumn leaf.”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“قلق على السرير
و ليل يأتي بالضجر المُعلق
على رف الكتب
كيف أفسر للذي يغيب عن قتلي
لماذا لا أموت حية الآن؟”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“They stripped you off your colours;
those that you spent your childhood mixing them
to draw birds and butterflies.
They dipped your wings/dreams in mud.
Then they piled them on your shoulders
until you metamorphosed into a terrible octopus.
Whenever you got rid of one arm, another one smothered you.
Now, you no longer dream of flying.”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“You are a wind,
And since I am a tree,
How can I calm down?”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“Only the raindrops
Which falling on your shoulders,
Know my thirst.”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“You are not dead nor alive.
Each new morning you take your way between the crowd,
but you never wonder where that creature who carried a lamp
Throughout the night to illuminate the road evaporates.”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“Why, whenever the morning broke and the sun extended its arms
between the dirty alleys of the suburbs, you were that obnoxious face
and you played the role of a poisonous bullet penetrating the eyes
of persons who usually await you in the streets of the city?
where did that soft petal which you had guarded between your palms
Throughout the night hide?
How did you become a desolate forest encircled
by woodsmen from every direction?
Why did your whispers which you had sent slowly
to remove the braids of your sweetheart's hair tuft by tuft
turn into an annoying scream?”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“No one knew that fangs you showed in a gloomy way
to snatch a loaf of bread from the jaws of crocodiles
and to lick a drop of water from springs guarded by snakes
were before a few hours anything but a faint light
creeping from between your lips into darkness.
No one knew how you spent your night removing shards of glass
stuck in your feet after a piece fell from the mirror of your dreams
and shattered on the asphalt without your attention...”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“The distance from my room to your city is full of risks.
I don't know how I repeatedly survived it...”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“I sit with you spiritless.
And while you were filling in the air with talks I don't hear,
There was a crow unearthing my head and feeding on my thoughts.”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“I'm not that woman that you usually see among the crowd.
I'm another woman who lives alone between the walls of her room
-- as simple as a white handkerchief --
Without lipstick nor a bra...”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“لو أتيت الآن
كنت سأغطي كل نقطة مضئية في البيت
كنت سأنقي العتمة كما ينقي الشجر الهواء
القمر نفسه لن يجرأ على الظهور بعد ذلك
لو أتيت
لأغمضت عيني وهمست لك
أنرني الآن”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي

“من ينسى حزنه سريعا
يبكي لأسباب يجهلها”
― asma jelassi أسماء الجلاصي