Mariam Zaher

We’re all pretending that we’re certain of where we go next, and while some of us actually get to go there, we’re all secretly insecure about our intuition anyway.

I’d like to get to know him – the human that turned away from humanity because he knows it will not live beyond this day.

I looked up from my phone and allowed life to take from me and give me what it had.

They tell you to forgive the people that have hurt you.

And how many of us settle for trimming the weeds when we should be plucking out the roots?

I wrote about you and what I’ve experienced through you. So little, seeming like a lot, so I wrote thinking I knew. I didn’t.

This is the lie you keep forcing down your throat but can’t swallow, because you see it for what it really is; a false promise.

Current plans: Making the damn cat read Robert I. Sutton’s The No Asshole Rule

Date a man that doesn’t need to step all over your independency to assert his sense of manhood.

My depression was not the inability to sleep; it was the inability to wake up.

Know that it takes courage to share parts of your soul in a world that has grown scared of magic. But know that it gives back more courage than it takes.

He found poetry in the knots of my hair
And traced circles on my skin