Nirmeen

“Wait for Me

Wait for me, and I'll return
Only wait very hard
Wait when you are filled with sorrow...
Wait in the sweltering heat
Wait when the others have stopped waiting,
Forgetting their yesterdays.

Wait even when from afar no letters come to you
Wait even when others are tired of waiting...
And when friends sit around the fire,
Drinking to my memory,
Wait, and do not hurry to drink to my memory too.

Wait. For I'll return,defying every death.
And let those who do not wait say that I was lucky.
They will never understand that in the midst of death,
You with you waiting saved me.
Only you and I know how I survived.
It's because you waited, as no one else did.”
― Konstantin Simonov

“فيكفي أننا يوما تمردنا على الأحزان
وعشنا العمر ساعات
فلم نقبض لها ثمنا
ولم ندفع لها دينا..
ولم نحسب مشاعرنا
ككل الناس.. في الميزان”
― فاروق جويدة, مختارات من شعر فاروق جويدة: قصائد حب

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
― Kobo Abe