You seek pain as if

it’s going to save you.

You dip into sadness

as if it’s going to bring you joy.

You expect that loving

the night will make

your days better,

and that loving the rain

will make the sun shine brighter.

You expect that diving

into the ocean

will get you to the shore of sanity faster.

Perhaps we live life in opposites.

To feel one thing,

we seek the other.

And to become a masterpiece,

we deliberately seek

what makes us fall and crumble,

to create a self so delicately stitched together,

it cannot be compared to another.

– Najwa