Maryam

“My soul
shattered with the strain
of trying to belong to earth-”
― Louise Glücks

“Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they're born”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It turns out, if you want to save a species, you don’t spend your time staring at the bird you want to save. You look at the things it relies on to live instead. You ask if there is enough to eat and drink. You ask if there is a safe place to sleep. Is there enough here to survive?”
― CJ Hauser

“I did not come here to sing a blues.
Lately, I open my mouth

& out comes marigolds, yellow plums.
I came to make the sky a garden.

Give me rain or give me honey, dear lord.
The sky has given us no water this year.

I ride my bike to a boy, when I get there
what we make will not be beautiful

or love at all, but it will be deserved.”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead