Basma Zaki

You can retell the wisest, most precious advices you’ve heard over the years, as you try to comfort the doubts speaking so loud inside my head at almost every instance. You can spend hours explaining what should or shouldn’t be done so I can move forward, and back it up with some of the most […]

The things we love, aren’t always full of rainbows and butterflies. Yet we still love them. Not despite the heaviness they might hold – but oftentimes *because* of it. Because nothing worth keeping is ever really effortless, and nothing easy truly allows for the emergence of so many levels of contentment. The things we love […]

I know you were meant to be a lesson every time I mention you in a conversation and realize you’re coming up in different contexts, triggering new emotions within. So there’s pain. I know there’s always pain. But sometimes when I speak about you, I can tell there’s an unprecedented level of maturity, too. I’ve […]

The words you don’t get the chance to say, they don’t just fade away. Every word you’ve heard the voice in your head repeat but never got to witness it reach your tongue, it doesn’t just get lost or disappear. It never leaves your body, and possibly not even your mind. It gets stuck. Stuck […]

Validation feels so different when it comes from a place of relatability. When you no longer even need to explain how you feel because you know they’ve been exactly where you are, and they just get it. They don’t need to exert much effort to understand, or to show that they understand. They don’t need […]

Conversations that you walk away from feeling like you’ve spilled out your entire life story, yet you know in you heart that if you were to go back to fix it, you wouldn’t change a thing. Conversations that you no longer try to replay in your head once they’re over, because even when you’ve shared […]

One of the oh so many heart-wrenching scenes on Anne with an E that brought tears to my eyes. A relationship where one person feels responsible for a failure and sees it in the other person’s eye everyday, even though that’s not what she thinks of him. For if she were in his shoes, she […]

I see you everywhere, all the time. I see you in between every bubble formulating on top of my morning coffee, as I sit there remembering the deepest thoughts we’ve discussed over that same cup. I see you in every song that randomly chooses to play in the background, with every lyric taking me back […]

Oh, how I wish I would stop checking my phone every two minutes, waiting for a reply I know is never coming. How I wish my mind would stop making me imagine having heard a notification, when I know my phone’s already on silent. It’s been 15 hours and 45 minutes since the WhatsApp ticks […]

I come across old pictures of me, and I look at the dates. All I can think of is, this was the phase right before you walked into my life. This was before I knew of your existence. And this was before I started checking my phone every few minutes, impatiently waiting for a response […]

So many people say so many things, but then comes that one person who can tell you something so tiny, it fits right into that shattered space inside your heart, after which nothing in the world seems to matter anymore. June 19, 2020

  There’s something about hugs that very few words can truly explain, something that cuts right through the heart and physically pulls out the pain, replaces it with warmth on the inside even though all that’s ever touched is the very outside stiff layers of the skin. And you only ever notice how long it’s […]

  for the very longest time you’ve been all I could think of my first morning thought and the reason I‘d smile every time I got a glimpse of my phone that tried so hard to stop me from typing up your name in every search bar from trying to stalk all what you are […]

I try to write about you.I try to write about the way I see you.I try to write about you and all the thingsyou never even realize you make me do.And I fail.I miserably fail. I grab a pen and a paperbut my thoughts race way too fast,faster than my fingers are even ableto turn […]

every person brought out an entirely different side of her every person only got to see whatever she chose to show whenever she had to be around them all it would confuse the hell out of her for it always got hard expecting which part would be taking control but then you showed up and […]

It was 11 AM and David had been trying to get back to sleep for two hours, after he was awoken by the sound of a door slam. He knew it was probably his parents leaving early for work and he was glad he could finally spend time on his own, but he still needed […]