warsan shire

“ 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 ”

“ I have my mothers mouth and my fathers eyes; on my face, they are still together. ”

“ Why do you find the unavailable so alluring? ”

“ We took such care of tomorrow and died on the way there ”

“ you have to understand, ”

“ To my daughter ”

“ I let you leave, I need someone who knows how to stay. ”

“ The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. ”

“ The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon. ”

“ Loving you was like going to war; ”