#As_hannah_thinks

20 April 2024 08:20

Saturday is leftover of Friday

መልካም ቀን

There goes [ ለእግዜሩ ]

#As_hannah_thinks

17 March 2024 05:43

Good listen! Couldn't agree more.
https://youtu.be/_EH_-lFWYzY?si=7Wq8qNNKuft097Bc

#As_hannah_thinks

09 February 2024 16:30

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Thank you for being here and for choosing to stay.

'On the road to Emmaus' marking this mile stone

መልካም ምሽት
#humbled
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#As_hannah_thinks

27 January 2024 06:29

I am just gonna sneak here neatly and share this

Also, please give this album a listen and thank me later
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ2XAwF3U9_oAURq17MZ6vii74jIiVg6U&si=x26nUeqa76NxZO0e
#Nostalgic_red_and_blue


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#As_hannah_thinks

26 November 2023 12:14

[Faith, Hope, love *Repeat]


ቢመሽም ደግሞ ባይነጋም
If bad and worse mix well in your life like a perfect amalgam

አላዛር እንደ ሞተ ቢቀር
Even if it doesn't get better

ማታ ለቅሶ ሁኖ ጠዋትም ለቅሶ ቢሆን
If you see the best of your years far in a rear view mirror

ተራራው ከፊቴ እንደሰም ባይቀልጥም
Not only you have to climb the mountain but there comes a bigger mountain after it

ጫካው ባይገለጥ ሸለቆ ባይሞላ
ተስፋ በኖ ጠፍቶ እምነትም ቢላላ
If uncertainties are camping full time in your brain like they are on a permanent retreat
Even if you have to train yourself to sleep to the lullaby of your own heartbeat


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I know one thing remains above all

Love

And these shall all be well with my soul



@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

17 November 2023 16:11

[🕰Peniel🕰]



Imagine fleeing from the home you were born and raised
after manipulating your old father on his death bed and doing your twin brother wrong

Imagine going far away to an utterly foreign country
Imagine to be played upon by your uncle multiple times who also happens to be your employer
Imagine serving fourteen years all for a wife
Imagine serving six more years to actually claim the wage you deserved

And through all this, imagine finding love
Imagine fathering kids, imagine keeping the faith
And imagine the heart of your uncle ,whom you have worked for two decades, turn against you at last

Imagine fleeing from him in fear of losing all that you have slaved for for 20 years
Imagine dreading the day you finally meet your long-lost brother as you go back to the homeland
Imagine your life being a constant journey from one battle to the next,
Imagine having to wrestle all your life like some freaking WWE wrestler.

And at last, imagine wrestling with God Himself 
like you haven't done your share of fighting yet
Imagine surviving
And even better, Imagine overcoming

Imagine getting your hip dislocated instead of being presented with a championship belt
Imagine wrenching a hip for a price tag of a changed name

And when it is all said and done ,
It is the break of dawn and the sun is rising
You want to rest so bad
But you have to go,
And you have to go limping
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Had I been Jacob, I know I would have slept before continuing my journey.
Not only slept but definitely overslept
And rightfully so



Oh Jacob!

This is what I was thinking this morning snoozing off my alarm for the third time since dawn
And unlike Jacob,I haven't been fighting all night long.



@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

20 October 2023 19:08

[🫂Uግer🫂]


Sometimes...(by that I mean always)
I am the "Me" in my "Meh",
Indifferent to the world around me
Unimpressed by the person I have become


And you,
You are the "Hug" in my "ሀገር"

A constant arm around my shoulder
My place right around the corner
A country without border
.
.
.

ሀገር ማለት ሰውም አይደል?
You are the Uግ in my Uግer


@as_hannah_thinks

#Repost

#As_hannah_thinks

06 October 2023 19:33

[Snippet]


We were sitting across the table, I like it
And I like you
I like you mostly because you let me be sitting quietly with my endless thoughts and feel at ease.
You asked me what was on my mind
I said "nothing in particular" and brushed it off, as usual
But here is a glimpse into what I was actually thinking


1. How do you talk yourself into getting accustomed to change when you know for sure that this time, it ain't for the better ?

2. The other day I saw a little girl, her left pinky badly injured by a slammed door. Her delicate finger dangled, held together by mere strands of tissue. Curiously, she told me she saw something weird in her wound- a tooth, she thought. I wanted to tell her that it was the shattered edges of her phalanges. But she was a little girl and she had big brown eyes.

3. I recently learned 'Wishing' is like having unicorns on rainbows and 'Hoping' is like pulling'em horns out of those unicorns and taming them into horses.
I have to try harder in life

4. And I have this legit fear of growing into becoming this person that a now years old me won't understand in retrospection

5. When I fail or make mistakes... I try to go easy on myself and be like oh this is new, I'mma take my lesson.
But then deep down, I know there is a pattern to it



So yeah, these were some of the things trafficking my mind, spreading across the fresh buns of my thought and jamming it like a fine marmalade.

I know am not gonna confide in you, you know that too.
You were not gonna ask.
But instead you said, "Another cup of coffee?"




@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

22 September 2023 20:00

Here is to another Friday

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#As_hannah_thinks

12 September 2023 06:48

https://youtu.be/p8NVLq2fGLc?si=Xm_BuGGHd1RL0Iqd And maybe, Happy new year

#As_hannah_thinks

08 September 2023 17:20

Friday is awesomeness,
Change my mind?😁


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#As_hannah_thinks

15 August 2023 17:08

And on the flip side, Loz articulated it well👇🏿

#As_hannah_thinks

04 August 2023 19:37

Hey my አርብ - እኞች
Please keep forgiving my intermittent absence
This Friday deserves a Poem and there you have it

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#As_hannah_thinks

10 June 2023 09:15

[Saakumeko]


I sorrowfully make pathetic jokes saying
my best friend knows my voice better than my face
Mahn seven-ish years is a long time
But now I have grown big enough to understand that it ain't that bad,
(Happy birthyear to us btw...here comes twenty five )

I am not even a phone person, but I still look forward to the long hours of phone talks with you at the end of the week
Sometimes we got lucky enough to do that twice per week


Your essence in my life hanging over my head like a bag of NS
Dripping slowly and patiently right into my veins
I tell you, that is how I get half of my strength
It is like load it with phone talks and maintain it with texts
Keep that going from week to week and boom it is seven years before you know it


It is a sad thing we live oceans apart
But now that I think about it, it is a blessing in disguise
This thing we got going
It is one of a kind

You dissect through my voice like a skilled surgeon
You tell me when I am sad even before I know it
You flesh out my frustration, my excitement and my fear
You make sense my scattered thoughts
just from the sound of my voice
And when I am going off the radar you remind me that doesn't sound like me.

Huh, what is me? Still figuring that out but
you Surely you can't tell that just by the look of me,
cause my face can't help but always look like me

That is why I say thank you for knowing the sound of my voice better than my face




@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

02 June 2023 18:48

[✏️Scratch✏️]



My parents been married for three decades now

And here is something my dad never said outloud to my mom but If I could somehow auscultate his thoughts, I know I am definitely gonna hear that.

"Look at us... We started from scratch, we are still on the scratch. You and I never been artistic but we managed to sketch 4 awesome beings who are definitely not gonna start from scratch. And that must be something. "

Thanks to the almighty, who draws just as good even with crooked stationaries.



@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

15 April 2024 19:46

"You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead."

#As_hannah_thinks

09 February 2024 16:31

[On the road to Emmaus]



To finally figure out that you are not as smart as you thought you were is heart-wrenching.
Discovering that you are not as close as you believed to be is soul-sore-ing

All your prized collection of pearls are just rocks and pebbles on display.
The unbreakable bond you thought you had gets shattered like a fragile pot made of clay.
Your cherished home is just another house.
Thinking you're a self-made champ, but the Matrix has always been the real boss.
The pills you have been taking were mere placebos.
All your profits you thought you made were just another loss.

You realize life has nutmegged you countless times,
Like Lionel Messi in his prime,
that at this point, you don't get mad;
you just laugh it off and keep walking down the road...
down the road to Emmaus.

Engaging in any friendly conversations with random strangers,
inviting them to stay for coffee and dinner,
hoping to finally meet the one who could break this curse,
waiting for it all to make sense.

I am waiting on YOU
On the road to Emmaus.


@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

27 January 2024 06:29

[💧Confessions from under the water💧]


Now is the time I share a strange truth about myself:
I am half-human and half-fish,
And no, a mermaid is not typing this.


I am selFish, and I swim in a swirling pool of ignorance,
Channeling everything towards my direction
As if I am a living Bermuda.
A black hole looms within me,
And if I percuss on my soul, I bet it will echo with emptiness


Lord, have mercy on me.
Take this fish out of the water, and it shall live.


@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

08 December 2023 17:12

[The tale of two zeros]

We came to this world with nothing,
we started from zero...[0]
And when the time comes for us to leave this world behind,
We leave with nothing,
that is another zero...[0]
So whatever we call life is a dance between these two zeros

I have a question,
Why does the symbol for infinity looks a lot like two zeros performing duet ballet?
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♾

Also on a very unrelated question column,
I miss you.
Well, that was more of a statement than a question
But I was thinking of those little infinite moments


@as_hannah_thinks
#Repost

#As_hannah_thinks

26 November 2023 12:14

Today's piece is somewhere between #unpopular_opinions edition and an actual poem

Good Sunday

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#As_hannah_thinks

17 November 2023 16:11

Today, we are talking about ያቆብ(or ያ - ኮፍያ if you wish )😁

መልካም ምሽት

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#As_hannah_thinks

12 October 2023 17:55

ልመርቅሽ:

May your headaches die at midnight,
May your knots burn with the morning sun,
May you find solace in silence,
May you find your smile in your back pocket.

I pray you see the better days your parents dreamed of,
I pray he protects you from sore throat and slow heartbreaks,
I pray you smile in excitement when you think of tomorrow,
I pray you find strength to pray for yourself.

May you find poems in your troubles,
May your scars align with oil and paint,
May your life be a canvas for others to see,
May your tribulations make art.

May you never run into a rabid dog,
May you never taste beer and fake happiness,
May you never face disputes your pinky can’t fix,
May you always speak your mind;
May you know what you know,
And may you know what you don’t.

May your tuesday afternoons go swift,
May both of your earbuds work,
May you find home in people,
May you be loved;
May you be held,
May you dance when the music stops,
May you paint smiles on faces,
May you live.
May you experience it all before it ends;
May you find change in your back pocket.

እንዲህ ልመርቅሽ፡
ሰው ሁኚ፣
ከሰውም ሰው።

@MenAce7

#As_hannah_thinks

22 September 2023 20:01

[⬅️Past perfect⬅️]


We all fail victim to the Nostalgia Bias
As if all the good and worth while things happened are the things of the past
We often find comfort in reminiscing about the yesteryears with rosy retrospection,
Funny how these roses have no thorns in our imagination


We find it easy to build our homes,
Right there, where the past belongs
couse the bus fares are high for our frequent visits to the "back in the days"
And with every trip it gets harder to leave
So why not live , if you can't leave? Ha

Soon we start getting consumed building bricks now
for our new mansion in the past, see the paradox?
Even the stincky parts of past get swept under the box
couse this is the past and only perfect resides here
and who cares about technicality when you are the lead engineer

Nail a framed mirror to the walls of your living room,
Let it be hanging
Can you see a reflection there?
Well, that is you clinging

Cause this is the past and perfection is the mother tongue
Put down your hammer
Time to learn some grammar
Ever heard of the past perfect tenses?
That is what has been messing with our senses

We sentimentalis the past, maybe that is why we have past perfect tenses... Perfect is an illusion but that is the human condition

And if that the case, good to remember the present perfect and future perfect tenses exist too
Even tho they sound more like an after thought, they might as well be just as true


I am just saying




@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

16 September 2023 07:14

[Home]


What do a snail and a tortoise have in common?

They both are slow, laggard animals ofcourse.
But most importantly, they carry their homes on their backs.

Home is hard to build and even harder to drag around. But I try to do it anyway.

So next time I come over your place and you say make yourself at home, I might as well crawl back to my shell.

Don't be sorry, it is not you. It is just me.

@as_hannah_thinks



📸@ Mickyas.S

#Repost
#Saturday_is_left_over_Friday
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#As_hannah_thinks

08 September 2023 17:20

[The Square that isn't]


We were walking on a walk way by the street that led to a large square, surrounded by roads that diverged.
The square appeared as a perfect melting point, with its radius stretching out into the unknown.

And as we walked, I couldn't help but wonder why this square was called a square when it actually looked like a circle.

Would we still travel down these roads if we were told it was a circle and not a square? After all, it had no corners for a slight possibility of togetherness to some extent.
Instead all it has is Just curves, and everyone disperses in countless directions, chasing after our own lives like a fool chasing the wind.

In reality, a Square is just a circle.
But sometimes, misnomers make life more bearable,
providing a sense of comfort.
And there's no harm in finding solace in that.

I am just saying I don't mind if you label our encounter as incident
Afterall, I know even a square could be a circle
And I have learnt to not mind missnomers




@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

15 August 2023 17:08

ጓዜን በቦርሳ ለመክተት እሞክራለሁ። ጓዜ ህይወቴ ነው። እንደበቆሎ ነቅዬ ሌላ ቦታ ልተክለው አልችልም። ስነቅለው አለቀ። ስተክለው ደሞ ሌላ ህይወት ነው። ሌላ በቆሎ። ይህችን የማስክ ካርቶን አንስቼ ወደቤቴ ብወስዳት ራሷን ትሆናለች? በካምፓስ ቁምሳጥን ውስጥ የወከለችውን ሁሉ ትሆናለች?

ልቤ ራደ።

ይህችን ቁራጭ ወረቀት ለምን በቁምሳጥኔ ከተትኋት? ይሄንንስ? ያንንስ? የቱ ትዝታ ነው ጠቃሚ? የቱ ነው በትዝታ መኃል የገባ ቅራቅንቦ? ሁሉንም ላስታውሳቸው እፈልጋለሁ። ሁሉንም ላስታውስ አልችልም።

እንዲህ ብዙ ኖርሁን? ፍቅርና ትዝታ ቤትም ጭምር በልብ እንጂ በምድር አለመሆኑን አውቅ የለምን? ለምን እንደዚህ እፈራለሁ? ሆዴን ለምን ባር ባር ይለዋል?

ግድግዳዎቹን ልሳማቸው? ቁምሳጥኔን ልጠምጠምበት? ደህና ሁን አንጀት የሚያርሰው ምን ሲደረግ ነው?

ድካሜን ሁሉ የጠጣው አልጋዬን ለማን ትቼው ልሂድ?
ስንብት መጭነቁ።

ነሀሴ 8/15
@coffeeandscribblings

#As_hannah_thinks

04 August 2023 19:38

[]


Farewells are overrated in a way,
I don't believe in goodbyes, I say
They overshadow all the mundane days,
The fun talks, the aimless laughters,
The tough times, the tears shed,
the good, the bad, the gray in between.

I don't want to recall the grand finales,
I'd rather remember the gentle beginnings.
Us starting to talk was so casual,
Sharing meals and having coffee came natural
Simple and effortless
And I don't want our goodbyes to echo past those silent starts.

Farewells don't allow for slow fadeaways
And as a certified book lover,
I believe life is like a well written book in a continuum
And we live flipping through the pages of our life's edition,
But we don't see the last paragraphs of a chapter
Screaming 'hey, remember me better than the previous section.'

My friend told me that anything that begs to be remembered,
Is not worth the memory
for spontaneity is what's treasured,
So I won't say goodbye, but I'll keep remembering
Without the grand endings, cherishing our silent beginnings
Just as much as our subtle transitions
For life is a continuum
And goodbyes sound like immature interruptions

Know that my leaving without a farewell,
Is my way of making home for our favourite memories
But in goodbyes they don't dwell
So don't look for them there



@as_hannah_thinks

#As_hannah_thinks

24 June 2023 06:02

@The30Fans

#As_hannah_thinks

10 June 2023 09:15

Friday is a concept and It is still Friday in my head

😊🖤

Good day
There goes Saakumeko

#As_hannah_thinks

02 June 2023 18:47

Not exactly the happy Friday to be back, I know.

#Hope
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