Azra Tabassum's Blog, page 109

one day I’m gonna write a story about two people who love each other like moths love the light...

one day I’m gonna write a story about two people who love each other like moths love the light and it’ll be helpless and hopeless and entirely heartbreaking, it’ll be like constantly searching for the moon in other people and flying straight towards it even though it hurts

i’ve noticed that some men do this real shitty thing where when they do something unforgivable in a...

i’ve noticed that some men do this real shitty thing where when they do something unforgivable in a relationship they somehow manage to blame you for it so you’re crying and asking them to stay and just fyi, if this happens too often in a relationship that you’re in, it’s toxic and you should get out of there fast. 

"Here is the topography of false starts. Herea whole constellation is lousy with desire.Here what..."

“Here is the topography of false starts. Here

a whole constellation is lousy with desire.

Here what passes for love is the same

as anywhere. Here no one has said

a prayer for the stars, and here no one

comes, except to leave, except to stay

long enough to bruise.”

- Paul Guest, from “The Report from Home,” in The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World: Poems (New Issues Press, 2003) 

Azra, I just want to know you. There are no words for the good that you are. Soft is the best one. But you are- more..

sweet baby :*

ffs I followed Hozier on Instagram and now I’m even more in love with him he posts videos of...

ffs I followed Hozier on Instagram and now I’m even more in love with him he posts videos of him trying to sing with his DOG?????????

"When he dozes off, I whisperin the trough between snoresthat he is a tooth meant for a gap in..."

“When he dozes off, I whisper

in the trough between snores

that he is a tooth meant for a gap in me.

There are spaces in him that will sink us.”

- Emily O’Neill, from “Phone Call with the North End,” Pelican


(via lifeinpoetry)

"Someone will tell you that she’s seeing someone someday and that she’s happy and your hands will..."

“Someone will tell you that she’s seeing someone someday and that she’s happy and your hands will stop working. You’ll have to work hard to hold onto whatever you’re holding. I hope it’s not glass, I hope it’s not breakable. Suddenly you’ll remember everything that you ever loved about her. Everything that ever moved you to tears, made your insides feel like they were tying themselves into knots. That she was loyal, that she was open for you, that she smiled against your mouth when you kissed. That it felt easy, like God had put the two of you together deliberately, like it had been the plan all along. But for whatever reason, you let her go and you thought that it was the right thing and for a little while, it felt like you knew exactly what you were doing. Except now all the parts of you that touched her knows that you’re never going to be able to touch her again and that hurts. Even your fingers are sad, even your stomach is aching from the loss of it all. You’re never going to get that again and that’s why your regret looks like artwork that would have been masterpiece if you’d finished it. Your regret looks like plucking a flower before it’s bloomed. So maybe you’ll call her and you’ll tell her that you miss her and she’ll sound gentle on the phone but not in love with you anymore. She’ll say ‘we happened and we were important but you let me go, I’m sorry, but you let me go’ and that’s how you’ll know.”

- I wrote this, stop bloody taking the credit off artist’s work!!!

When we have sex and have periods we have a 'ghusl' or cleansing of the body. And if we have tattoos our bodies will not be clean because the water would not reach certain areas.

Sex?! Muslims don’t have sex. Sometimes we make intense eye contact though.

it’s scary that you were a whole another person before I loved you and that I have no idea...

it’s scary that you were a whole another person before I loved you and that I have no idea what that person is like

it really is genuinely amazing to me that every month i get a small sum of money that shows me that...

it really is genuinely amazing to me that every month i get a small sum of money that shows me that you guys are still buying my book! even though it’s been a little over a year since it’s been out, i can’t tell you how heartwarming and lovely it is that y’all are interested in what i have to say. i’ve got plans with Words Dance Publishing and the lovely amanda-oaks (although none of it is set in stone yet) but until then, you can buy Shaking The Trees right here, as always, so so much love for you all.