Something not everyone knows how to love.
You are terrifying and strange and beautiful.
And if he wants to leave then let him leave. The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. Someone should have already told you that. To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire. So what did you want to do love, split his head open? You can’t make homes out of human beings. But even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams. 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. you only leave home when home won’t let you stay. But you are always too intense, frightening in the way you want him, unashamed and sacrificial. (offenearme) on Instagram: No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land is a. His teeth ache with memory of taste, his body just a long shadow seeking yours. Every woman before or after you is doused in your name. no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear saying-leave, run away from me now. Says you are blinding him, that he could never leave you, forget you, want anything but you. Explaining, in short verses, the unthinkable choices refugees must take, Shire writes: “no one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land.You are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you, compares you to an impossible highway, to a burning house.
You only run for the border / when you see the whole city / running as well.” This evocative stanza from poet Warsan Shire’s Home hit a nerve online recently as the European public finally woke up to the reality of the refugee crisis. “N o one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark. Refugees shout in silence, muttering words amongst themselves. The hardest part of pain is living with it for a lifetime. “Is there a border where humanity will look at us and discover that we are human beings?” They ask. Going through the human folds of their souls battling fears, emotions, mourning the lives they saw lost.
#NO ONE LEAVES HOME WARSAN SHIRE CITATION SKIN#
The poet’s new collection melds verse and reportage to capture voices of the Somali diaspora. no one chooses refugee camps or strip searches where your body is left aching or prison, because prison is safer than a city of re and one prison guard in the night is better than a truckload of men who look like your father no one could take it no one could stomach it no one skin would be tough enough the go home blacks refugees dirty. Only to be labeled refugees and sent back. Warsan Shire’s Portraits of Somalis in Exile. They crossed seas with hope to step on land. They ask if there is a final passage where they would build a house, a home with an olive tree in the backyard. 24 Likes, TikTok video from Umar Chaudhary (moha.chaudhary): 'No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark - Warsan Shire warsanshire immigration poverty hunger incidents sad solidarity pakistan people foryoupage fyp oslo norway'. Their minds still pressing against the public latrines’ walls of a refugee camp.
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