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Yes. yes i do. have the right to be this lush and neverending. — Nayyirah Waheed

a poem can eat a person whole. for years. — Nayyirah Waheed

The truth is
you were born for you.
you were wanted by you.
you came for you.
you are here for you.
your existence is yours.
yes. — Nayyirah Waheed

Never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,
you are invisible. — Nayyirah Waheed

There is a god in writing.
a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me. — Nayyirah Waheed

I am a soft revolution. the one whose hair is bleeding. — Nayyirah Waheed

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind. — Nayyirah Waheed

she was a beautiful place to bare my legs. — Nayyirah Waheed

i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's. — Nayyirah Waheed

my mother gave me islam.

my father gave me the god of absence.

and here i am.

a religion made of myself. — Nayyirah Waheed

it was only and ever love. — Nayyirah Waheed

poetry.
is the fire leaving my body. — Nayyirah Waheed

I don't pay attention to the
world Ending.
It has ended for me
many Times
and began again in the morning. — Nayyirah Waheed

I am so full of my tongue you would think speaking is easy. but it is not. — Nayyirah Waheed

we are never our own.
we must change this fact.

- acceptance — Nayyirah Waheed

My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived. — Nayyirah Waheed

apologize to your body.
maybe,
that's where the healing
begins. — Nayyirah Waheed

When I am afraid to speak is when I speak.
That is when it is most important. — Nayyirah Waheed

i have lost millions and millions
of words to fear.
tell me that is not violence.

- the deaths — Nayyirah Waheed

can you be a daughter.
if you have no
mother language."
- african american iii — Nayyirah Waheed

knowing your power
is what creates
humility.
not know your power
is what creates
insecurity. — Nayyirah Waheed

there is no healthier drug than creativity. — Nayyirah Waheed

I love myself.'
the
quietest.
simplest.
most
powerful.
revolution.
ever. — Nayyirah Waheed

i am a brutally soft woman. — Nayyirah Waheed

We are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell. — Nayyirah Waheed

Sometimes the night wakes in the middle of me. and i can do nothing but become the moon. — Nayyirah Waheed

sometimes i smell my parents on my words. and i weep. — Nayyirah Waheed

I want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. - fish — Nayyirah Waheed

trust your work. — Nayyirah Waheed

But this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are. — Nayyirah Waheed

your skin smells like light. i think you are the moon. — Nayyirah Waheed

You
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you — Nayyirah Waheed

Poetry alters my dna. every poem is a different life. every poem brings me closer to myself. and breaks open a new future inside of me. — Nayyirah Waheed

I am a black wave in a white sea. always seen and unseen. — Nayyirah Waheed

the cure for apathy is memory. — Nayyirah Waheed

you see how your body is beginning to slow glow with stars. you are remembering. you are mine. you have never been anything else. — Nayyirah Waheed

What we hide and do not say turns into another mouth that only we know. — Nayyirah Waheed

i like myself. when i am myself. — Nayyirah Waheed

It is being honest
about
my pain
that
makes me invincible. — Nayyirah Waheed

all the women. in me. are tired. — Nayyirah Waheed

I knew you
before
i met you.
i've known you my whole life. — Nayyirah Waheed

eyes that commit. that is what I am looking for. — Nayyirah Waheed

Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind
Nayyirah Waheed — Nayyirah Waheed

In your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not. — Nayyirah Waheed

Even if you are a small forest surviving off of moon alone, your light is extraordinary. — Nayyirah Waheed

Sometimes
the beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend days
trying
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep. — Nayyirah Waheed

go.
enjoy.
leave.
it was all about you, anyway. — Nayyirah Waheed

Does he not remember he is half woman. — Nayyirah Waheed

will never know my skin. wild with everything and nothing but them. i sang into their blood. each and every one of them have my voices in their bones. — Nayyirah Waheed

The thing you are most
afraid to write
Write that. — Nayyirah Waheed

They take no from our first breath. go back and return it to your mouth. your heart. your light. — Nayyirah Waheed

i am a silk field of vulnerability. — Nayyirah Waheed

i know, she is the love you are, the land you are made of, and she is hemorrhaging. war is eating her heart. — Nayyirah Waheed

Listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you. — Nayyirah Waheed

she asked 'you are in love what does love look like' to which i replied 'like everything i've ever lost come back to me. — Nayyirah Waheed

A lie
is
simply a lie.
it draws its strength from belief.
stop believing
in
what hurts you.
- power — Nayyirah Waheed

If we must
both
be right.
we will
lose
each other. — Nayyirah Waheed

I loved you
because
it was easier
than
loving myself. — Nayyirah Waheed

i am such a sensitive summer thing. — Nayyirah Waheed

length of our love. she was your eyes the day i met you. remember, you and i. — Nayyirah Waheed

Your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood. — Nayyirah Waheed

You are a story. do not become a word. one word. because you want to be loved. love does not ask you to be nothing for something. — Nayyirah Waheed

I will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day. — Nayyirah Waheed

You are a flood in my hands. — Nayyirah Waheed

Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire. — Nayyirah Waheed

I believe that everyone in the world.
has
one poem.
that is their soulmate. — Nayyirah Waheed

Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it. — Nayyirah Waheed

Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish. — Nayyirah Waheed

Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving. — Nayyirah Waheed

i cannot see you anymore. your smile. your legs. your heat. is lonely. the honey, grandmother said, is for your blood. it is to bring you back. — Nayyirah Waheed

the poem.
the one that is running through
your life.
pay attention.
to that poem. — Nayyirah Waheed

as a woman i know the difference between appreciation and teeth. what really hurts is that as a girl i had to know the same thing. — Nayyirah Waheed

i have always been the woman of my dreams. — Nayyirah Waheed

you are not a mistake. you are too many exquisite details to be a mistake. — Nayyirah Waheed

No'
might make them angry
but
it will make
you
free. — Nayyirah Waheed

the hard season will split you through. do not worry. you will bleed water. — Nayyirah Waheed

There have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious. — Nayyirah Waheed

I will be lost and unlost, over
and over again, relax love. You
were meant to be this glorious.
Epic. Story. — Nayyirah Waheed

She was flower salt in my heart, and she hurt beautifully. — Nayyirah Waheed

leaving. doesn't mean that you've left. — Nayyirah Waheed

And i heard her say, 'you
are afraid of love. but
love is not afraid of you. — Nayyirah Waheed

when,' is not something you ask someone when the bodies of their aunt. uncle. friends. first love. cannot be found. — Nayyirah Waheed

Whether with a lover or none. i reek of love. i stink of love. — Nayyirah Waheed

there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship. — Nayyirah Waheed

I will always be a translation. — Nayyirah Waheed

Would
you still want to travel to
that
country
if
you could not take a camera with you.
-a question of appropriation — Nayyirah Waheed

If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air. — Nayyirah Waheed

water clings to my wrists. it has been my fragrance since birth. — Nayyirah Waheed

Be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. - the becoming — Nayyirah Waheed

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. — Nayyirah Waheed

i will. and this will end. - closure | dankyes — Nayyirah Waheed

Grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else. — Nayyirah Waheed

Can we speak in flowers.
it will be easier for me to understand. — Nayyirah Waheed

you and the poems have a lot to talk about. — Nayyirah Waheed