Abu at-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi - Until Our Love Was Honored I Concealed It

so that what was held equaled what remained without:

it grew to overflow my flesh, turning
into toxic for my hidden self.

Abu at-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi

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