I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan - Eliza Griswold, Seamus  Murphy

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May God make you into a riverbank flower

so I may smell you when I go to gather water.

 

*sigh* So beautiful.

 

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When sisters sit together, they always praise their brothers.

When brothers sit together, they sell their sisters to others.

 

My heart aches.