I am the French boy who lost his mom in the theatre when some people opened fire for reasons unknown to both us and them. I am the teenager from Baghdad who lost his hand in a blast because he was out watching a game of football. I am the mother from Brussels who saw […]
x Read more xI still find you in everything, like under my fingernails as I scrape for freedom, like inside my lungs as I gasp for air knowing every molecule has your name, floating inside them. I see you, hazel-eyed sitting in my bed, calling me, I smell you, freshly-bathed drawing me near. I hear your voice, claiming […]
x Read more xI’ve always felt that words, are the weakest form of communication, as if there is, a need to fill the silence between us. As if the soundless medium that holds you and me is dangerous. As if it will engulf whatever love still lives in the backrooms of our aging hearts. We can’t bear […]
x Read more xTonight, I want to fall in love with a stranger. Don’t ask me why, who or how. Don’t tell me if it is right or wrong, if it is shallow or profound. Just don’t. I understand perfectly well how ludicrous it may sound, but tonight, like any night, I want to fall in love with […]
x Read more xI have had lovers sitting at an arm’s length talking about love, life, the color of my hair, or their fears but their voice dissolves in the space between us it never reaches me. I have had lovers tell me, that their world was a plant which needed my love to grow, the same ones […]
x Read more xI want to pack, my universe, in three-and-a-half boxes, of memories buy a ticket to a place, i have heard or seen, in a long forgotten dream, i once had with you, and leave, just like that. I want to be swept, across distances, not on the face of this earth, but across, your eyes […]
x Read more xA few days back I had a conversation with a ballerina. She told me that she had, on New Year’s Eve, performed for a couple and not spent the day with her family. I asked her about why she’d done it for only a couple of people and that too on such a day (I […]
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Painting by Catrin Walz Stein
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