.Youth in Revolt

robhillsr: A resilient spirit has no limits…

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:05:49 -0400

robhillsr:

A resilient spirit has no limits…

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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:02:24 -0400

"Funny how one can feel all alone in a city of 432,426 other ppl…"

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:40:16 -0400

“Funny how one can feel all alone in a city of 432,426 other ppl…”

- (via tattooedheartbreaker)

x4everluv: same here

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:40:06 -0400

x4everluv:

same here

whatilove: “I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.” - Warsan Shire

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:20:08 -0400

whatilove:

“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”

- Warsan Shire

The Unbearable Weight Of Staying

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:19:44 -0400

simple-and-sensible:

I let you leave, I need someone who knows how to stay..

"I held down my daughter last night spread her limbs across the forest laid her out to rest crushed..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:55:05 -0400

“

I held down my daughter last night
spread her limbs across the forest
laid her out to rest
crushed berries across her mouth and
gave her my knuckles to chew on

I gave my daughter to a man
an offering that made my stomach tight
with want, he spread her limbs across the town
I prayed she felt something,
wriggled underneath him like
the women across the border,
I listened out to here hermoan
but I heard nothing.

my husband tides himself
inside the wetness of another woman
my marital bed is a cleft chin I lag my
tongue across, my body has never felt
heat, my back has never arched.

I gave my daughter to a boat last night
pressed prayers into her palms and
told her to quiet her tears
women like us can’t afford to be weak
and I want different from my grand daughter.

my daughter will curse my name in a foriegn hospital
where her limp pregnant body
will be inspected by a bone lipped doctor
who’ll ask “what happened to this woman”.

tell him your mother took it
a tribe of women the woodsmen
a rusted blade the axe
folklore and religion,
but tell him your mother meant well
and promise me
that you’ll teach my granddaughter
that there is never any shame in want.

”

- Tribe of Woods by Warsan Shire

(via kekkes)

“make lovelike you have nosecretslike you’venever been left never been hurtlike the worlddon’t owe...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:48:49 -0400

“make love
like you have no
secrets
like you’ve
never been
left
never been
hurt
like the world
don’t owe you a
single
wretched
thing.”
― Warsan Shire

4REAL THO !

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:48:35 -0400

4REAL THO !

"look at you you’re so beautiful when you laugh at night i swear you look like you could swallow the..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:07 -0400

“look at you
you’re so beautiful when you laugh
at night i swear you look like you could swallow the stars
or at least swallow the scars
and stories of the women who came before you.”

- Warsan Shire (via mymindportfolio)

"I belong deeply to myself"

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:47 -0400

““I belong deeply to myself””

- Warsan Shire

I do, I do.

(via lacyisawesome)

I do

"fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:24 -0400

““fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful than i can accept, don’t be more human than i am willing to allow you to be and be quiet, you’re too loud, even your un-belonging is loud. quiet your dreams, your voice, your hair, quiet your skin, quiet your displacement, quiet your longing, your colour, quiet your walk, your eyes. who said you could look at me like that? who said you could exist without permission? why are you even here? why aren’t you shrinking? i think of you often. you vibrate. you walk into a room and the temperature changes. i lean in and almost recognise you as human. but, no. we can’t have that.””

- Warsan Shire

I still can’t get over how amazing she is.

(via lacyisawesome)

"they all say‘i pity the one who left you’ then they leave."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:11 -0400

“they all say

‘i pity the one who left you’

then they leave.”

- Warsan Shire, “the revolving door” (via lifeinpoetry)

"Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:11 -0400

“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe.
With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.”

- Warsan Shire (via aprill-showers)

"If it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:57:41 -0400

“If it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.”

- Warsan Shire (via sweetestsiren)

"you can fake my skin into constellations you can fake me into beauty you can tell me I’m worth..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:57:30 -0400

“you can fake my skin into constellations
you can fake me into beauty
you can tell me I’m worth loving
but at my peak I’m sapling
seedling
dandelions
only coming alive when you touch me.”

- Warsan Shire (via rarararambles)

LOVE !

innuend0s: “For Women Who Are ‘Difficult’ to Love” - written...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:53:33 -0400

innuend0s:

“For Women Who Are ‘Difficult’ to Love” - written and performed by Warsan Shire
You are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highway
to a burning house
says you are blinding him
that he could never leave you
forget you
want anything but you
you dizzy him, you are unbearable
every woman before or after you
is doused in your name
you fill his mouth
his teeth ache with memory of taste
his body just a long shadow seeking yours
but you are always too intense
frightening in the way you want him
unashamed and sacrificial
he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
lives in your head
and you tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.

warsanshire: AI WEIWEI

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:29 -0400

warsanshire:

AI WEIWEI

"It was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:43:07 -0400

““It was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn’t much left you could depend on.””

- Charles Bukowski, Women (via rabid-glow)

After the day I had yesterday, this is the sweetest heart...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:42:42 -0400

After the day I had yesterday, this is the sweetest heart warming post I could have read. - I’m there through your heartache, I’m there in the storm.- God is soooo sweet

spiritualinspiration:

Today, know that God cares about the things that concern you. He cares about the things that hurt you. He is close to the brokenhearted, and He wants to bring you peace and comfort. Turn to Him and receive His love. Let Him bring healing to your heart and restoration to your soul.