Ruhani Khadijah
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Patties on fire
Patties on fire. Mother's days a liar. You want to tell me to burn down the house to expire, round the corner it might meet you, you never see it coming. Why are we running? You’re always halfway there. But never fear it has a familiar feel. You’ve met before. You'll smell it when it comes. Over and over till forevermore, I say forevermore because will I know when it’ll stop. That’s the thing, it never stops but it changes. Patties on fire, in this house we’re survivors but in the next, we could be dead. Rick and Morty taught me don’t play naughty because some other you are at the end of the story. Possibilities, possibilities endless, endless it's almost breathtaking. It has taken breath almost and certainly. At the same time? Yes. Right on time? Yes. Was it your particular time? No.
By Ruhani Khadijah5 years ago in Poets
we are the third person in our own stories
Do you ever realize that when we think back to a memory, we are no longer a participant in the memory but an observer? With ease, I can think back to when I got my first ear piercings, but I'm no longer the little girl going into that piercing shop, in the memory now I'm the watcher, the bystander the witness, and the grown.
By Ruhani Khadijah5 years ago in Poets
matter
I don't get it, I don't get me and I don't get you. There is no me and there is no you, but I can reach out my hand and touch me, I can reach out my hand and touch you. I can reach out my mind and innerstand me, I can reach out my mind and overstand you. I can reach out my heart and love me, I can reach out my heart and love you
By Ruhani Khadijah5 years ago in Poets
Roundhouse Romance (Part 1)
Roundhouse romance. There are four homes within roundhouse romance. 1) Water I look at you and I see me, you look at me and you see you. A true reflection of what I've known to be true, what I've known to be real, what I've known to be my peace. I've always known, I've just finally taken hold of its hand and it's now staring right at me, smiling right at me and confirming all that I've known. The reflection lies in the stillness of the water, this home belongs to the truth of your biggest pain and your biggest peace, it will show you your biggest fears and your biggest strengths. This home within the roundhouse romance says "to be naked around someone, that's easy, most people do it without blinking, but it's hard to be open and even harder to be transparent." Alas, water has its chaos as well as its stillness. Ripples. Sometimes your vision is blurred, sometimes the ripples look like questions, the ones that make you feel uneasy, uncomfortable and out of balance. The ripples make you dizzy and so sometimes you can't think straight and you aggressively shake your head more and more in hope to silence your mind from the confusion, but it just gets worse. This home in these moments is telling you to let go and release into the waves instead of fighting them; you'll never see the bottom again if you also fight, just let it drift 'til it's still again. Don't try too hard to think what caused the ripples, who is at the fault of unsettling the water and which person will take the responsibility of calming the water back down because sometimes the water will ripple to test you, not anyone else around but you. You can get mad and walk away from perfectly good, drinkable water and thirst 'til you find new waters, but remember the new waters are likely to have flown and grown from the old waters; it's just a bit further downstream, you cannot run on the water and so, therefore, you cannot run from the water. Stay calm and remember what the stillness of the water had taught you, as there is a lesson in every ripple and stillness.
By Ruhani Khadijah6 years ago in Humans
The 21st Tsunami
I hate being in crowds. I love the rush of being in a crowd, but I hate the idea of following the crowd. I'd look amongst myself and realise that we're all going in the same direction, we're all following the same instructions. Most people nowadays are so used to this tsunami that they don't even look up. What seems like millions of heads some above, some below all following the same current. The scary thing is many many people have been taken by the strong current, it's now their world and its dark, the deeper they drown the thicker the dark surrounds. But they can see and they can breath beautifully underneath it.
By Ruhani Khadijah6 years ago in Poets
A Light Bulb
around the days you transitioned were the days I questioned. around the days you transitioned I tried to find the meaning of existence. around the days you transitioned I tried to find the trail you could've left behind for me to tell me you're alright.
By Ruhani Khadijah7 years ago in Poets
If You Saw a Dragon
what would you do if you saw a Dragon? I don't know, kill it. why? because that's what they do. who? you know, the men in armour and stuff on TV, they just find it and kill it, and obviously, they get a prize at the end, like a sexy princess or maybe treasure, the brightest silvers and the heaviest golds, with every jem in all types of jewels ... and I want that so I'd probably kill it.
By Ruhani Khadijah7 years ago in Poets
