“Your omnipresence is marvellous!
I breathe and you enter me.
I exhale and enter into you.”

Kamand Kojouri

“I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
that I do, but I love you
so much I want to share
God with you.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born
when you said, ‘Hey.’”

Kamand Kojouri

“Everything I have become,
everything I will ever accomplish
cannot compare to my most
impressive feat:
I have loved you
fiercely
and
assiduously
with the very marrow
inside my bones. So that when I die,
they can crack them to find
you there. So that when I die,
they can open me up
and see your name tattooed
on the wall of my heart.
So that when I die,
my epitaph will neither
commemorate
who I was
nor what I did,
but will read:
“She loved.
And loved. And
loved.”
And so,
I smile now,
because
that is no
small thing.”

Kamand Kojouri

“You just wait.
Soon,
lovers all over the world
will be reciting poems
dedicated to you.
This is my promise.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Because in truth, my love,

if you have thought of me once

then I have thought of you a thousand times.
You have captured my heart. It is yours.
I am at your mercy now.”

Kamand Kojouri

“When I’m with you,
I feel exposed.
Naked.
When I’m naked with you,
I feel clothed.
Sheltered.”

Kamand Kojouri

“I open my eyes.
I want to know:
what is in the abyss of a kiss?
Are stars born in these black caves
that house bated breaths and unspoken words?
Do our souls crawl on these tender cheeks
to greet one another by ivory gates?
What happens when we kiss?
Where do you go?
Don’t tell me.
For I have lost my desire to know.
Kiss me
so that I forget myself.
I close my eyes
and fall in the abyss.”

Kamand Kojouri

“For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me,
you are cinnamon that lingers
on the tongue and gives
bitter words
sweetening.
For me, you are the scent of
violins and vision
of valleys
smiling.
And still,
for me, your loveliness never ends.
It traverses
the world
and finds its
way back to me.
Only
me.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Before you, nothing.
Now you,
and everything.”

Kamand Kojouri