I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
For the first four years of my studying in the U. S. , I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.
You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.