لماذا..السؤال


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حُطامُ كُتب. حُطام كلمات. بقايا أحرف اندثرت في أعماقي. أشلاء معانٍ لم أستطع احتواءها معاً لتُشكّل لي معنى "من أنا". صفحات تُقلب بسرعة نبضات قلبي. صفحات مضطربة ساعة امتلاء ذهني بتشويش أجهلُ مصدره. انتفاضُ عروقي حين أسمع همساتي لكلمات كتابٍ بين يداي، حتى تكاد شراييني تنفجر كلما ارتفع صوتي أكثر. أشخاص وعبارات وألوان وسيناريوهات. أحداثٌ وتهيُّئات وهلوسات....ثُم صمت. لماذا كُل هذا؟ ألأنني فقدت إحساس الكلماتِ أم لأن الكلمات تاهت بين روحي وجسدي. أسطُرٌ تُلاحقني وأقلامٌ تدُسّ حبرها بين أناملي. لا أريدُ أن أكتب. هل بإمكاني الاحتفاظ بصمتي داخلي؟ قد تكون صفحاتي الفارغة سبباً في تغيير أُمة؛ لمَ لا تقتُل الصفحات الفارغة المُحدق بها إذا أمعن النظر مدة تزيد عن مقدرة روحه؟ ألا يُمكن أن يُصبح الكاتب عبقرياً بقدرته على ملء صفحات كتابه بأسطر صامتة؟
ليس بإمكاني أن أُخبرك أن كلماتي ستُغيرك، فما بالك بصمتي وهو الذي لا يفهمه من عاش بداخلي أعواماً قد نسيت عدّها. لكني لا أُريد أن أكتب. فالكتابةُ إحياء أمواتٍ ومعالجة ذكريات مهترئة وعبث بألفاظ لا تُكن للإحساس بشيء. الكتابة تقتل شعراءً وتسجن عباقرة، فقد صدق من قال أننا نُحب ما يقتلنا بل ونتلذذ به. الكتابة تاريخ ومستقبل وحضارة ودمار. الكلمات تحوي "صمت" ولكن أين هي منه؟ الكتابة سجن وحرية، حروبٌ وإنسانية، ارتقاء وجنون عقلية.
هي الحياة والموت.

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The ink of Doubt


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Maybe the sun doesn't shine on the other side, maybe it's the moon that does (even stronger, I guess). Maybe it's not words that you need but the impact of silence on your soul and heart to waken you. Maybe it's not books or novels or biographies or memoirs that your eyes want to read, maybe it's the feelings they carry and the lessons they conceal. Maybe it's the weakness that had held you back all this time, not the times that you thought were strong and could carry mountains on your shoulders. Maybe you need the waves of summer not the rains of winter, the dawn of spring not the dusk of autumn. Maybe your words were all out in the wrong places and it's taking you forever now to right what went wrong and put every word in its right place, time and to the right person. Maybe all what a mother said once was right; slow down, take it easy, stop overthinking, it will kill you. Maybe you need more dreams in sleep than dreams in waking. Maybe it's the waking that hurts not the staying awake. Maybe, just maybe, you could kill every if only you have said inside and out, because it's never about that. Maybe you need a shoulder. Maybe you need a please-don't-let-the-world-get-to-you hug. Maybe you need words. Maybe you need silence. Maybe you need love. Or comfort. Or a prayer. Or a bit of faith. Maybe all of this is just you inside of me, or me inside of you. Maybe it's your love that did this. Or hatred or non-love or whatever you'd call it. Or maybe it's everything and it's nothing.
Maybe I just don't know. I don't.


Written here. Written now. Written for you and written for me, written for everyone who feels like this or will or has felt like this even once in their lifetime. May it never happen again.


Her Character


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You remember how we sat with chairs across of each other and opened our unfinished books to read them like finishing a chapter of our lives? You know how you comforted yourself and sat cross-legged, holding your book too tight and giving the impression that you'd cry your heart out if someone stole it, like a precious diamond? You had some kind of a dazzling smile that I had never seen before, and I wondered that day, I wondered too much that I thought I asked myself aloud, do books do this? Do books make us this beautiful? I can see you like I'm seeing a character I'm reading that has suddenly come to life, incarnated with all your beautiful features and smiles and laughter, only with a different name. I get back to my book so fast I think you see my failed attempt at sneaking. Every two minutes I finish a paragraph I think it has you in it somehow, the smile or the words maybe. Sometimes I come across a word you love like "infinity" or your favorite purple color or even your favorite flower. I once read that the universe conspires to make everything you really want, happen, only now I do believe it does.
Is it books that made me believe? Or loving you that made my heart biased to you? Is it just a smile or a word or a favorite color that makes me think this is for me? Or am I only being a fool by seeing you without seeing you? You'd think I'm too tugged in my book that I forget you, but instead I'm reading this book for you, to you, about you, and with you.


In reply to the previous prose. This is all in my head so don't worry :)


The Character From His Book


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I need to write you in the most cliché words because running away from you always takes me back to you. Let me craft the idea of you like I'm portraying my favorite novel character. You'd be reading under a dim light, so tugged in your book I'd get jealous of the characters inside, they're so lucky to be flying freely inside your imagination while I'm only watching you from a two-meter space that kills me to get closer. I wish I could read with you to share the same thoughts (I wish we'd be one). I pretend to be busy with my book too but I find that every character reminds me of you, even if you're not really similar, they just invoke you in some mysterious ways. I flip through each page in a speck of a second while stealing a look at you from the corner of my eyes. I start to be so good at this you barely notice me. And I barely notice myself when you lean closer to the book and I melt as if you're drawing me in one of your characters too.  You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day.

Written for you.
4th of Jan. 8:23 PM.

About Everything Versus Words


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Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of love and hatred and disappointment and regret. Intangible love and uncolored hatred and heartbreaking disappointments and abysmal regrets. Write about the seven deadly sins, about stealth and murder and gluttony and greed. Don’t forget to write about saints and sinners all the same. Write the poor and the rich using the same words, make them equal for once. Write about mothers who lost their children, about those who never had to lose; I challenge you to tell me which hurts more. Write about darkness and light, about light in the dark and darkness in the light. Remember to write about lost friendships, about those who never found a shoulder when life shut its lights dim, or those who kept the secret to their sadness within. Be fair to them too. Remind the world of those who always had someone to love but not someone to love them back, craft their nights and dreams carefully. Don’t forget the writers, who keep promises with words and silence. Be subtle. Be warm. Remember heartbeats and heartbreaks. Remember everything, remember all, equally.
And then let the world remind you: Words will never be fair to whatever you write.

Time Frame Backwards


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You raise me up and break me down and keep talking like nothing’s happened. You build walls and break silence with a question that leaves doors open and windowpanes shaken in fear of a storm. You quietly create a new time frame until all the clocks of my mind break the moment you step into my space, and smash me like I’d been sent to exile in some place where you, alone, control my hours. And then I am sent to the frame of “before”; I’m not sure whether you want me a memory or you want me ‘in’ your memory, although I can’t but comply to your rules.
You’d think I’m in love but I’m all out of my reign, so how can I be? Even the words frozen behind my pursed lips never seem to melt and tell you..I don’t know.
I’ve given up trying to say that I know what to say to you, because in a time frame like yours, I’m walking backwards to point zero, I’m breathing your words and what you want me to not say. Your silence isn’t fit to the space in my soul, it would drown in my own, and in the end I’d speak my own silence in you.
The cobwebs you carefully design and the chess pieces moving around me only make me create another reign in your own, until I am your time frame and you are barely the guard.
Time will make us both gasp for some calmness inside out. And you’ll quiver with what remains of you to get hold of what will remain of me. You’ll weaken my heartbeats with your fingertips until I can no longer save my heart with a borrowed beat. But I’ll kiss the air surrounding you and let go.
You shouldn’t have raised me up tomorrow.


12/28/2012
7:26 PM.

Intertwinement


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Please forgive me, Sir
For having taken an empty oath,
And instead of telling your truth,
I told my own.

Words slipped like a stream
Because truth also has
An hourglass.
And then it’s set free

You looked at me,
A crowd; alone
And yet my tongue did not
Shiver.  It wasn’t me, talking.

-intertwinement-

Kill me, Sir -
Outwardly, I'd be bleeding
Whilst inwardly, I'm too,
too strong to fall.



Another version of an old piece entitled "It Never Happened".