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You
Written during the time I had a panic attack after seeing you again. I should have closed my eyes and run away. I hate myself for...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 14, 20256 min read


Forget-Me-Not
For I know how I've made you despise me and don't wish to burden you with my presence anymore. But please, remember me. I'll never forget...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 9, 20253 min read


Raindrops on the Windowpane
I wish I could tell you. I had so much to tell you. But I pushed you away with politeness because it hurt so much inside. And I wanted to...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 5, 20255 min read


The Road to Nowhere
I wish I didn't exist. In the world I live where everywhere I go is a liminal space and devoid of life. Everything feels abandoned and...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 5, 20254 min read


Weeping Willow
In the silence that remains after a love has slipped away, we are left with the echoes of what once was—a haunting reminder of a...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Feb 28, 20254 min read


Weeping Willow (Extended version)
In the silence that remains after a love has slipped away, we are left with the echoes of what once was—a haunting reminder of a...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Feb 28, 20256 min read


Fata Morgana
For the one whose absence has unraveled the fabric of my world, the one who once held the weight of fate in their hands and carried the...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Feb 12, 20254 min read


The World Bleeds
For the one whose absence has carved an eternal chasm in me, the one who once held the universe in their gaze, but now exists only as a...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 31, 20253 min read


Who Would Mourn Me?
For the one I hold together, even as I come undone. For the love I offer freely, even when it is met with indifference. For the hands I...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 31, 20255 min read


The Winter’s Gaze
For the one whose love is both my sanctuary and my torment, the one I chase in dreams and in the hollow hours of the night. For the one...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 15, 20254 min read


All Our Sorrows
For the one for whom I will bear every sorrow, every pain, every injustice—willingly. For the one I cannot fully release, yet desperately...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 8, 202510 min read


The Weight of Fragility
For the one whose absence I rehearsed a thousand times in my mind, because I knew I could never truly let you go—and yet, every moment...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 6, 20252 min read


Black and Blue
For the one whose three-year-old picture I carried in my purse all these years, because I couldn’t imagine my future son looking like...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 3, 20252 min read


Rusalochka
For I find myself captivated by the original story of The Little Mermaid—a young girl, bound to the sea, whose heart overflowed with...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 3, 20252 min read


Joseph
To the one I loved beyond reason, whose hands I tried to hold even as they pushed me away. This is for the love unacknowledged,...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 3, 20256 min read


Janus
To my Janus, the Roman god of paradoxes, whose heart I could never decipher, a presence in my life both loving and hateful, I stand lost...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jan 1, 20253 min read


Then I Wake
For I was writing this one late at night when you suddenly sent me a text and I was startled, and my dream was interrupted. And then I...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Dec 30, 20243 min read


Home
Coming back to a place that once felt like home now feels like stepping into a foreign world— a liminal space—one where the echoes of...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Dec 30, 20242 min read


Through The Looking Glass
In the fractured mirror of my mind, I still see reflections of you—haunting, persistent, and more monstrous than I ever realized. I. I...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Dec 30, 20243 min read


The Maze in Wonderland
Trapped between reality and madness, I find myself spiraling deeper into a world of illusion—where every question becomes a cage and...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Dec 23, 20245 min read
Maybe it's too late, but you'll forever live in everything I create
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