Status Updates From The Mirror of My Heart: A T...

showed my Iranian dentist this book and it made him smile, he then said i was an interesting person and said id reach all my aspirations 🤟🤟🤟

couple pretty ones -

“The drops of sorrow Heaven rains on me
Have sent me wandering over land and sea-Ah, would that they could bring me to the place That frees me from this being that is me.

That apple you in secret sent to me
Gave with its scent eternal life to me-My heart glows now like fire with happiness That from your hand this gift was sent to me.

‘†Gender is conceived of as extremely fluid in pre-modern Persian poetry, with the same epithets being used to describe both beautiful girls and beautiful boys; the physical ideal implied by descriptions of the beloved in a ghazal is androgynous-—a very boyish girl or a very girlish boy.’

saw this marvelous cover on my Pinterest and just had to get it,

fun fact: I learned from my geopolitics class that most iranian’s are persians