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They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate 'the other'. They want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. They want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate and we will never be silent for life is ours! .Kamand Kojouri
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The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead and LOVE. What are you saving all this love for – death?Kamand Kojouri
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One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes – destroying everything that separates you from the Lover. Once you taste the fruit of this vine, you will be kicked out of the city of yourself. You will forget the world. You will forget yourself. I tell you: you will become a madman who wanders the streets looking for the Lover once you drink this Wine of Love.Kamand Kojouri
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Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.Kamand Kojouri
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The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love. Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.Kamand Kojouri
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I am humbled by the grace of God.I am humbled by the beauty of this universe. Humbled by others' kindness. Humbled by life. I drop down to my knees and give thanks.Kamand Kojouri
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If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.Kamand Kojouri
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How can you be a lover of loveand not be a lover of God?It is impossible.Kamand Kojouri
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God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another.Kamand Kojouri
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I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.Kamand Kojouri
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The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me. .Kamand Kojouri
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Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...Kamand Kojouri
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You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.Kamand Kojouri
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Of course, I am religious. I worship love.Kamand Kojouri
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You’ll only know the answers once you love.Kamand Kojouri
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If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against your chest. If I can’t be your love, then let me be a forgotten coin so I may rest a while against your thigh. If I can’t be your love, then let me be an unlit cigarette so I may rest a while in between your lips. If I can’t be your love, then let me at least remain in these words so I may rest a while in your thoughts. .Kamand Kojouri
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I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.Kamand Kojouri
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Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance?Kamand Kojouri
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We call a story about love a love story. We call a poem about love a love poem. Well then, my dear, aren’t our lives love lives?Kamand Kojouri
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Like freshly cut roses, I place life in a vase... of love.Kamand Kojouri
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I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.Kamand Kojouri
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How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.Kamand Kojouri
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Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you.Kamand Kojouri
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If you can love one person, you can love everyone.Kamand Kojouri
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Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bombs. Let the silence rise from empty bellies and surge from broken hearts. The silence of the hidden and forgotten. The silence of the abused and tortured. The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned. The silence of the hanged and massacred. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so the hungry may eat my words and the poor may wear my words. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so I may resurrect the dead and give voice to the oppressed. My silence speaks.Kamand Kojouri
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The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I’d know everything for you alone contain the entire universe.Kamand Kojouri
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Why this candle? Why this cake? The day of my birth is not today. I was born when you said, 'Hey.Kamand Kojouri
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I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.Kamand Kojouri
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Break open your heart so that I may enter it.Kamand Kojouri
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Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.Kamand Kojouri
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We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.Kamand Kojouri
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Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the "official" scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the cosmos will be set free from its decadence. It calls us to consider the sobering similarities between ancient pagan cosmologies (creation began with war & violence between the gods) and modern naturalism as a nihilistic, philosophical worldview (all will end in astronomical war & violence). Instead, the revelation (apocalypse) of the Lamb is that God created out of love and love will win in the end.David D. Flowers