Imen Benyoub

“Tu seras aimé le jour où tu pourras montrer tes faiblesses sans que l'autre s'en serve pour augmenter sa force.”
― Cesare Pavese

“Morning’s nowhere in sight
a night walks
through dark streets of my thoughts
with heavy legs
dragging with it like a rag doll all my regrets
could have
should have
would have
blink in the dark
like cheap neon lights
irking weary night birds outside

morning’s nowhere in sight
to wash away with its light
the carcasses a night left behind
of regrets scattered all over dark alleys of my mind”
― Silva Zanoyan Merjanian, Uncoil a Night

“but on this night
the universe is crawling
on skin soft with expectation
and I have untied silk rhymes
lifting the bluebird’s cleavage
you might as well have caged it
between your colored doubts”
― Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

“I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession