“أنا مصري وتكويني كويتي / ودمي مغربي ونبضي يماني / وأقطار العرب أرضي وبيتي / عقب كلمة (عروبة) ما نداني”
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“أظلم الأوقات في تاريخ الأمم هي الأوقات التي يؤمن فيها الانسان بأن الشر هو الطريق الوحيد للخير”
― تراب الماس
― تراب الماس
“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
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when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
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“البلد دي مالهاش توكيل، ماشية بدعاء الوالدين.”
― تراب الماس
― تراب الماس
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