“You will ‘fail’”

“You will ‘fail’ often, by your own impossible standards, where ‘success' is never defined except as an abstract sense of bliss.” 

— Omar Sakr on the path of the poet

source:

“Tweets to a Queer Arab Poet” by Omar Sakr

This Arab Is Queer: an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers

edited by Elias Jahshan

2022. Saqi Books, London UK