And so you see the needle pierce through the cloth multiple times, as you see the rhythmic simplicity of a yellow thread being pulled through the dark fabric to make a pattern of patch a hole, rest assured. Be fully soothed in the fact that pain is here to tailor you, to ‘fix’ you, soContinue reading “Quote – Rest assured”
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Hang in There
“Hang in there”, they said.But he wasn’t hanging at all, his fingers were building a home for himself.He was climbing. If he seemed to them to be hanging, how can we tell them that it’s because he liked to live on the edge?He liked to be right where he was, in mid air.He depended onContinue reading “Hang in There”
Quote – Compulsion
Compulsion knows no morals, it has no logic. Compulsion absorbs fear rather than resists it. It’s reasons stand out entirely independent from the concept of meaningfulness. Try to explain it, and you end up in a word warp that further drags you towards the inexplicable compulsion – beyond the bourgeois zone of logic and reason.Continue reading “Quote – Compulsion”
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Now if only we knew that knowing is always partnered with not knowing, all would have been better than it has become. Beisan A. Alshafei May 11th, 2019
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Not all grand destinations are located at the top, reached through a steep uphill walk. Sometimes it’s the downhill trail which is the most scenic – a gentle calculated stride that allows you to choose your pace rather than succumb to it. Some of us long for the vastness of valleys rather than the majestyContinue reading “Quote”
Ciao Dio, sono ancora io. Oggi sono la tua, et tu sei completamente il mio.
Beisan A. Alshafei December 21st, 2019
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The most genuinely lovable, affable and helpful people are the ones who have, at least once, been painfully unloved, lonely and helpless. Beisan A. Alshafei February 21st, 2019
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Written and posted on October 12th, 2019 Edited at the end of December 2024, after having mothered my son for 3.5 years. I never edit my old writings, but this one kept pinching me in bed and I could not sleep: You were only able to contain me because you were separate from me. YouContinue reading “Quote”
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Every so often, we are put in a strange situation in which there is no unquestionable difference between failing and winning. Beisan AlShafei March 29th, 2019
Love and Polarity
When I love you, I love all of you, in a non-chronological way that suspends me in a time warp. I don’t only love that part, or this one, that pours on me a plethora of sunlight. I conjointly love the dark shadow, splayed on the gravel behind me, that your brilliant imposing light shacklesContinue reading “Love and Polarity”
