Have you ever heard silence? How do you hear the silence? You don’t, you feel it. And they stared at the silence between them.
RAHA ARAZHave you ever heard silence? How do you hear the silence? You don’t, you feel it. And they stared at the silence between them.
RAHA ARAZThey are simple creatures they see right through you and if by chance they miss you, they will make you believe you were never there.
RAHA ARAZI remember so little that I can’t forget enough.
RAHA ARAZWhy are we told to be afraid to hurt? Why do we avoid, run and hide? Cover up inside with shields of armor, Our shins, and elbows made of pads of plastic; We are not made of glass and tattered bits, It’s not weakness when our strength builds us to last.
RAHA ARAZThe cloak of death has favorites when its strings are being controlled by the puppeteer of hatred.
RAHA ARAZWhere do I stand when neither side recognizes me as one of them.
RAHA ARAZCan you taste the colors your ancestors weaved into, The armors of resilience they wore; Can you taste the colors of the unpaved path before you, waiting to be colored by you?
RAHA ARAZThere is no sunrise as beautiful as the one where you realize you are worth a million suns.
RAHA ARAZFor him, my body was for him.
RAHA ARAZTake a souvenir you don’t have to keep, just pretend you want to remember.
RAHA ARAZThough it may be the season I’m not quite in bloom but slowly unfolding to where I may accept the sun and someday bloom.
RAHA ARAZI am suffocating in the vacancy of the overflowing space, can you feel me reaching out?
RAHA ARAZFor time does nothing for you if you do nothing with it.
RAHA ARAZWhy must your suffering cause my peace and my peace your suffering?
RAHA ARAZLiving in a constant paradox, begging to be held and released by gravity, to be grounded and free. But my feet pressed against the earth yearn for the clouds above my fingertips adrift whispering I don’t want to be at the mercy of gravity.
RAHA ARAZHow can I not love you from a distance when you breathe the same way I do, Have the same needs I do? Search for the same purpose and meaning that I do ? Why must there be me over here and you over there that do not live in the same world?
RAHA ARAZ