8 Quotes by Nesrine BENAHMED

We all hear this whispering truth in the breeze, but when we don't, it always comes screaming with the wind. And I know it's hard to reach for yourself. And I know you think you're ruined beyond retrieve. But you will rejuvenate. You will retune your rhythm again. And I know it would feel like searching for the voice in the radio. And I know some days will be searing and bitter and dry. But I know it is worth it. You are worth it.

Anger is repressed sadness. It’s the fear of being hurt again. It’s the “sorry-s” you’ve never got. It’s the pain you’ve never dealt with.

I am but a frangibleMud brick orderedTo build a home in theBig city of humanity;Yet break whenForced to fit.

They say I’m a poetI sayI just put wordsInto feelingsTo justifyMy inadequacy

Sometimes, you are moved by everything that happens around you. A song moves you so much. Its lyrics make you tear, its melodies take you to another world. You read a poem and you wish you were the one who wrote it. They say you spend your whole life rewriting the poem you loved once. You know that’s true. Because you know how poets feel. You know how they think. You know who they are.

Dying feels like a familiar memory. Like a mental imagery that is bone-deep, and somehow melancholic. I am going to die. It is inevitable. It is imminent. That is just the way the dice has landed.

It is funny how the person who’s been abusing you all of your life starts to complain of the self-destructive behaviors your brain has learnt to cope with when all they did was destroying you.

We promise it's all going to be okayThere is one way to make itAnd if necessary you will fake itYou see, it's not a spiral patternOf tears and trial and your denialLove, we won’t let you crawlAnd sprawl and get lost in despairWe will hold you tight, you'd feel yourRibcage filled with intense heat ofOur love for you