Reminders on the Path Quotes

“Your silence breaks over me in waves of fire.
How long will you leave me here to burn?
The heart speaks to you in the language of water.
For whom do you burn?

The sun bears witness to each lie,
lessening its heat to shield me from the flames.
When the sand of the present erases footprints of the past,
where do I turn?

Within you lies an inexhaustible well,
but you bestow your affection drop by drop.
My parched mouth forms prayers out of thirst.
An oasis or mirage? I can't discern.”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Reminders on the Path

“I stumble on this path
with an open wound
but I am not
my woundedness.”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Reminders on the Path

“Who will sing me back to myself but me?”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Reminders on the Path

“There are many ways to hold sanctuary
May I be one of them.”
― Sheniz Janmohamed , Reminders on the Path