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I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
Warsan Shire
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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
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Republic of Kenya
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When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.
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Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.
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I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.
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Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
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Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? You’re here now, welcome home.
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I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.
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At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.
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Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
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The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.
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Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
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Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.
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I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes on my face they are still together.
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You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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You can't make homes out of human beings.
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My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.
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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.
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We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
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