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As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him
when all along, He has been concealed behind
the veil of 'I'.


Kamand Kojouri

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my love,
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only after your birth.
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because your soul
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Seduce me.
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KAMAND KOJOURI I can sense your love,
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What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names ...
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because of the pr...
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I have grown old from being serious.
I have grown ill from being serious....
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though the fruits are picked,
the plant maintains fr...
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is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist. KAMAND KOJOURI You want to become a better person?
Just give thanks.
Give thanks for all of it.
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as you assume.
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KAMAND KOJOURI Do not avert your eyes.
It is important
that you see this.
It is important that you ...
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by tallying the hours on his wrist.
I wiped it off and called...
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We can only surrender
and become love’s prey.
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when I said you
live in my heart.
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when you l...
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about the alchemy of twins?
Twins are
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My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
Bu...
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Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget your...
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My body is longing for you.
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that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
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have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
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I missed a part of me
I shared with you
that’s now gone.

M...
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Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
an...
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Will you come inside and live with me?
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Do you see
that you can’t hear snowfall?
Look.
Do you sense
that...
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falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
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and they see me
but the lovers —
we recognise one another:
ther...
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KAMAND KOJOURI The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.
KAMAND KOJOURI Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we c...
KAMAND KOJOURI We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.
KAMAND KOJOURI Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
KAMAND KOJOURI Die every night so in the morning you are reborn.
KAMAND KOJOURI Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes wil...
KAMAND KOJOURI To live with you is to live.
To live without you is to die.
KAMAND KOJOURI Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hea...
KAMAND KOJOURI I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must hav...
KAMAND KOJOURI I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own acc...
KAMAND KOJOURI Does God know
the number of kisses
before we fall in love?
Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI The only path wide for us all is love.
KAMAND KOJOURI I've written you sixty-seven love poems.
Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
KAMAND KOJOURI What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI Take me when I'm wild.
Take me when I'm free.
Take me for me
and I will take you
KAMAND KOJOURI The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you.
KAMAND KOJOURI Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI With you, I am. Without you, I am not.
KAMAND KOJOURI I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI Your omnipresence is marvellous!
I breathe and you enter me.
I exhale and enter into you.
KAMAND KOJOURI You just wait.
Soon,
lovers all over the world
will be reciting poems
dedicate...
KAMAND KOJOURI You are my favourite part of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s be...
KAMAND KOJOURI I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi...
KAMAND KOJOURI Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born KAMAND KOJOURI We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in li...
KAMAND KOJOURI I’m a winner because I always bet on you.
KAMAND KOJOURI Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.
KAMAND KOJOURI How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?
KAMAND KOJOURI I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.
KAMAND KOJOURI If love weighs you down
and casts a shadow on your life
then it isn’t love.
Love KAMAND KOJOURI I will drive the world crazy
with love poems for you.
So they can know how magnificent you...
KAMAND KOJOURI I fell in love
and then
I became
love.
KAMAND KOJOURI Love, they said, burns you
and builds you.
But with you,
there’s no ash.
Just...
KAMAND KOJOURI All I need to do
is place my pen against paper
and your love
writes for me.
KAMAND KOJOURI Let us remember to
always rediscover one another
because we are
forever changing.
KAMAND KOJOURI Of course, I am religious.
I worship love.
KAMAND KOJOURI My love,
you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide <...
KAMAND KOJOURI I remember our childhood days
when life was easy
and math problems hard.
Mom would he...
KAMAND KOJOURI I don’t mind losing
in this game of love,
if it means You
will be the winner.
KAMAND KOJOURI Everywhere I go,
your beauty spills
into my day.
The trees were
never this v...
KAMAND KOJOURI I love you.
I love you a thousand times.
I love you an irrational number.
And I will...
KAMAND KOJOURI I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it...
KAMAND KOJOURI May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate pe...
KAMAND KOJOURI Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.
KAMAND KOJOURI Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.
KAMAND KOJOURI Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classica...
KAMAND KOJOURI A spark
of every fire we seek
is already within us.
KAMAND KOJOURI Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and ...
KAMAND KOJOURI My love,
we can close our eyes
but we cannot stop the sunrise.
KAMAND KOJOURI It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it...
KAMAND KOJOURI Extremities are flawed.
Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.
So damn these eyes th...
KAMAND KOJOURI I have died at the ripe age of twenty.
Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint m...
KAMAND KOJOURI Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI