it is true, we do not know the existence of something, until it is felt in one way or another. the sunset was not known, before its brilliance in crimson, blush, and magenta was seen evolving across someone’s vision. thunder was not feared and hidden from until it was heard booming into a person’s eardrums. sunlight was not warm until it gazed upon a strangers naked skin. and i am forever misunderstood until my words land upon the hearts that need them the most. and what could be more prevailingly real than that.
''I would recognise you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion''.
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Somedays i love the sunsets, somedays the Sunflowers and most days, both.
Anneshwa Paul
Susan Sontag, I, etcetera: Stories
Casted shadows are beautiful until they're casted by your memories, or traumas. Who would dance in the shadows casted by nightmares?
Anneshwa
In the echoes of my being reside the shattered pieces of yesterday, yearnings of today, and curiosity of tomorrow. In the lonely existence of this moment, the echoes get louder in the vacuum of my brain.
-Anneshwa
Gorgeous photo by @marinalaurel 💛
Moscow metro
Salma Deera, Letters from Medea
“Was it possible I had something to give? Out of the nothingness that was my life? Really, what the fuck did I have to give? Woman with too many holes in her. And yet there was something. Words.”
— Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
Anneshwa Paul / A melancholic December morning