Zienab Hamdan Quotes

He remembered her
During Friday prayer Khutba.

He remembered hearing
The blaring echoed voice
Through the microphone.
"And of everything
We have created pairs"
Heaven and earth
Night and day
Sun and moon
Shore and sea
Light and darkness.

Her,
For him.

Don't just talk to me,
I won't let you in.

Spark my interest
And watch me
Unravel myself,

For you.

Two years later
A girl sits in front of her ex lover.

He doesn't say a word
And her heart doesn't ache for him
anymore.

Her hair is longer than its ever been.
She is even more beautiful than the day
he left her.

And at that moment,
He panics.
He lost her.

And he can never have her back.
He can just watch her be beautiful
And in love
With someone else

I'm sorry
That the world
Didn't rotate in your
Favour,
And was not
Kind to you.

I'm sorry
That it made you cruel.

One day, you're 19
And the boy who broke your heart a year ago, is now off in some parallel lifetime from you, breaking someone else's heart.

It's not you this time
But you understand how she will hurt.

You're still wearing your red lipstick
Still squatting
Still blossoming.

And you cut your hair off because you didn't want to be defined by your looks.

You make drastic changes
And end up wearing more black
Than you did before.
You're beautiful.

You started telling yourself that in the mirror because you started recognizing your worth.
You slick your short hair back
And smile.

You're happy.
And for once, that's all that matters.

When your world
Crumbled around you,
You held the pieces
Inside your palms.

As tears streamed
Down your prominent cheeks,
I saw you smile.

Smiled a smile
That said
"Watch me rebuild
A world that won't give in on me
As easily as everyone else did".

You let yourself fall too fast
For a boy
Who doesn't even have the common courtesy
To manhandle your heart with the proper care.

Didn't someone tell you
That you're worth more than
Dispassionate good morning text messge
And tasteless afternoon dates?

Your heart beats more heartbeats than the average human being.
Doesn't that mean anything to you?

She's not the girl that you just forget about.

She's the sunrise
That sneaks in through your window shutters
On an early summer morning.
And she sits there.
Lingering.

You think to yourself
That maybe if you reversed the shutters,
She'd go away.

But you know
That outside your window
She's even brighter.

Outside your window,
She's not yours.
Not anymore.

How much
Does your tongue have to bleed
Before you stop biting it?

Your heart is not a lion,
So why are you taming it?

God gave you a loud voice,
A voice box dripping revolution,
So quit trying to lower your volume.

You were meant
To rattle the tectonic plates
Of anyone who has ever told you
That you're not enough.

You were born fiery
Don't let anyone put out your flame
With their tears of incompetence.

Their syncopated hearts,
Loved one and other.

They just didn't beat the same frequency.

I heard a theory once
That the atoms that make up soul mates,
Were once fused together
In the same star.

I find it beautiful
That in another life
You found your way to me.
And in this life
You've found your way to me
Yet again.

You lost her.

And now she lights up the night-time sky for her new lover
'Cause he recognized her as the moon.

And you envy him.

She could've been your moon, but you were too busy chasing the dimly lit stars.