its frightening to think that although you may be hearing of them less, the scale of death in gaza has remained unrelenting, unceasing. im scared and saddened at how it has almost become gauche to list the ways in which palestinians are dying, that at some point everyone came to a collective fatigue of posting and seeing dead bodies and stopped sharing them, even though the images are still coming out daily, but it's almost as though no one knows what to do with them anymore.

things i've seen today, january 3rd 2024:

a child in gaza city running from snipers praying under his breath as he passes a road full of corpses, including children

two journalists running through a different road as people lie dying around them. they both stop to ask the dying men (one very elderly) to say their last prayers, but they are too far gone

a girl crushed underneath the rubble in the refugee camp of jabaliya, her ponytail swinging down

a father and his small daughter both killed by a sniper shot to the head lying on a road

some of these people were killed today. some were killed earlier, in the north, but have only just been shared due to communication blackouts. israel's genocide of palestinians continues.

I love hozier's "I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door" BUT "banke maala preet ki tere tan pe jhar jhar jaun" I'd become a garland of love and fall on your body and "tu hi toh jannat meri, tu hi mera junoon, tu hi toh mannat meri, tu rooh ka sukoon" you are the heaven for me, you're my passion, you are my prayers, you are my soul's bliss and "tere naam se ji lu, tere naam se mar jaaun" I'd live by your name, I'd die by your name and "hawaoon mein lipta hua main, guzar jaunga tumko chu ke, agar man ho toh rok lena, thahar jaunga inn labon pe" I'm tangled with the breeze, I'll pass away after touching you, if your heart wants it, then I'll stay with you on your lips

Hindi is the language of love and longing

Say you do not care for me. Tell me you feel nothing and I will walk away.

"I feel like I'm in the midst of a war, and both its sides are me."

ہم کیا کریں، اگر نہ تری آرزو کریں

دنیا میں اور بھی کوئی تیرے سوا ہے کیا

Hum kiya karen, agar na teri aarzoo karen

Duniya main or bhi koi tery siwa hai kiya

Yeh dukh alag hai ki usey mein durr ho raha hu

Yeh ghum juda hai wo mujhe khud durr kar raha hai

Tere bicharne pe likh raha hu mei taza ghazalei'n

Ye tera ghum hai jo mujhko mashoor kar raha hai

- Tehzeeb Hafi

Ulfat Badal Gayi, Kabhi Niyat Badal Gayi

Khudgarz Jab Hue, Toh Phir Seerat Badal Gayi

Apna Qusoor Dusro Ke Sar Par Daal Kar,

Kuch Log Sochte Hai Haqiqat Badal Gayi!

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Har Waqt Guzar Jaata Hai, Par Dard Thehar Jaata Hai

Sab Bhool Bhi Jaye Koi, Kuch Yaad Magar Aata Hai..

Kahin Aag Lage Lag Jaave, Koi Naag Dhanse Dhans Jaave

Kabhi Gagan Gire Gir Jaave, Chahein Kuchh Bhi Ho Jaave

Is Toote Dil Ki Peed Sahi Na Jaaye

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

— John Green

a love so nice its echoed in dreams!!

First Saturday without my ThymeGorya 🐯🌾 and F4 😭🥺

Thyme, let me set the record straight. I didn’t say yes to being your girlfriend that day. We’re not a couple. I know. I know that we’re not a couple. You haven’t said yes. And I know what you’re going to say today if I ask. But I do it hoping I might soften your heart a bit.

F4: Thyme and 3 exasperated friends.

This

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis