58 Quotes & Sayings By Jenim Dibie

Jenim Dibie is a novelist, poet, and performer. He was born in Kenya, raised in the United States, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has performed at local venues such as The Great Leap Brewery, The New Parkway Theater, and The Castro Theatre. His first book of poetry (and his debut novel), "The Pharaoh's Shadow," was published by Spuyten Duyvil Press Read more

His work has also appeared in publications such as The Devil's Discourse, Prose Poem Quarterly, The Penmen Review , and others.

My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived...
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My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived and died a thousand times And in each of those lifetimes With all of those pieces I chose you… A million times. Jenim Dibie
Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,...
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Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another. Jenim Dibie
I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.
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I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music. Jenim Dibie
I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going...
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I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me. Jenim Dibie
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Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you keep apologizing for it. Jenim Dibie
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Why can't we breathe now, In this moment we have breath? Jenim Dibie
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My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes. Jenim Dibie
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This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was. Jenim Dibie
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I have these knives in my chest that can't become words. Jenim Dibie
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You are alone, So alone, You speak back to silence. People call it loneliness, You call it solitude, Different words, Meaning the same pain. Jenim Dibie
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2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks. Jenim Dibie
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We colour the world, Not with the darkness of our pasts, But with the rainbow of our hope. Jenim Dibie
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I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry. Jenim Dibie
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I write these words to touch you, My love, In places my hands can only dream of. Jenim Dibie
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The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need. Jenim Dibie
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I don't know where to go from here, So I crawl back inside me, And Turn the lights off. Jenim Dibie
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I hope my forgiveness reminds you, Of the part you forgot to break in me. Jenim Dibie
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Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died. Jenim Dibie
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Nos·tal·gia (n):A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone. Jenim Dibie
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Beautiful storms dressed in women's clothing. Jenim Dibie
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The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine. Jenim Dibie
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Your words were music to me tonight, but you weren't mine to listen to. Jenim Dibie
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Everything I try to hide ends up screaming from a mountaintop. Jenim Dibie
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You never needed wings to fly, You only needed love. Jenim Dibie
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I keep running away, As if from something, As if to something. I keep running away, As if from myself, As if to myself. Jenim Dibie