46 Quotes by Hanna Abi Akl

I wait for deathlike a lover waitsfor lovealone in his roomfondling a piece ofcurtainor by the train trackskicking pebblesunder the sun.

It was true: the government gave you everything—food, job, security, healthcare. The part they didn’t mention was that they took your thinking in exchange.

As he got back on the highway, the sun was rising from the east. Somehow, he knew he’d make it through the day.

Think of me lyingNext to youIn your bedThink of me when you drinkYour warm coffeeThink of meWhen you read kindRomantic wordsThink of me in every love sceneYou watch in a movieThink of me when you cryAnd think of meWhen you write

Dear god, it seems that I find it now easier to answer to the smell of booze and cheap women than good faith and common sense.

No current. No electricity. No love. Just the barking of a mad dog like a shout in the sad dark.

I look into your heartAnd burdening pastLike sweet sunshineReflected on the morning dropsOf dew

Throwing awayCompassionCareAnd kindnessWe slowly seepInto rotting sewers

I’d watched that girl hold onto a lot of things, but not quite like she held onto a bottle of wine.