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الرحيل

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"Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. " " The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love." "Death itself is like a snake shedding its skin… A new self reveals itself when the old carapace has shed and died, as though we live in exoskeletons with something truer underneath… What we see with our eyes is different from what we know: “The things / themselves.” "Sorrow like vapor, sorrow like smoke, sorrow like quicksand, sorrow like an ocean, sorrow louder and fuller than the church songs, sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go. […]I did not grow up in the black church, nor with the Negro spirituals. Now I understand them as never before. Their poetry feels pure and profound. I been in sorrow’s kitchen a...

Desired: what a woman wants what a man feels like

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I desire you. I desire only you…. Where are you? I am playing hide and seek with ghosts. But i know i will end up finding you, and the whole world will be newly lit because we love each other, because a chain of illuminations passes through us. — André Breton As a straight woman I'll talk about what I know: being with a real man is such a privilege and that's because a real man knows what a woman is .what she's capable of .a real man knows his way around. he's not afraid of expressing himself to the woman he wants in all the ways he can but ,while also managing a nice respectable façade. Yeah, a real man sounds pretty mythical but ,he's real he could be anywhere ,and if you think you deserve one then congratulations.. you do ! and for that you mustn't settle for any less. After a few umm.. unpleasant experiences I know  what I want to hear, I know what I want to see, what my real man looks like. My real man is good with his words he uses them exper...