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My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

Warsan Shire

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
Mouth
Mouths
Flower
Heart
Blossoming

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And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.
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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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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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You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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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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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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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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Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
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I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
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Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
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It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
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Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back.
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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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I belong deeply to myself.
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