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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Healing can look a lot like violence.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Can we just pretend we are wanted?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue It is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I am tired of only being loved in theory.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
