Basel Emam

Sapere aude!
MD interested in mathematical oncology and human-computer interface.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

Let people lose you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them create their own stories; don't rush to fix them. Let time answer what you never needed to explain. Every truth reveals itself when the right time comes.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

-Khalil Gibran

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

وَلَقَد رَأَيتُكَ في مَنامي لَيلَةً
فَنَسيتُ ما قَد كانَ مِن أَحزاني
وَحَسِبتُ نَومي في حُضورِكَ يَقظَةً
حَتّى أَفَقتُ عَلى فِراقٍ ثانِ
لَو كُنتُ أَعلَمُ أَنَّ الحُلمَ يَجمَعُنا
لَأَغمَضتُ طولَ الدَهرِ أَجفاني

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

My body is nothing but a monument of inevitable decay. I no longer walk but drag my shadow over the remnants of scorched memories. My eyes are twin black holes absorbing the beam of the universe's last flickering star.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

And death shall be my friend, my comrade and the silencer of all pain. For I have witnessed light fading away from everything I once loved. I live in a silence universe with dust roaming quietly around me marking the cold passage of time.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

I look at the heavens and no longer see a sky but a velvet bruised tragedy. The sun is no longer a star but a scar, a malignant ulcer marking the end of my final night.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

قلْ لي.. لماذا اخترتَني؟
وأخذتَني بيديكَ من بين الأنامْ
ومشيتَ بي..
ومشيتَ.. ثمّ تركتَني
إن كنتَ - يا مِلحَ المدامعِ - بِعتَني
فأقلّ ما يَرِثُ السكوتُ مِنَ الكلامْ
هُوَ أن تؤشّرَ مِن بعيدٍ بالسلامْ

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

a kind of metaphysical gravity that makes every movement, every thought, every heartbeat, an act of excruciating, back-breaking will.

- Infinite jest

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

The so-called ‘psychotic depression’ to which they were subject is a different thing entirely. It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with life as we know it.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

It is a kind of radical and permanent ontological isolation. And it is not a 'feeling' at all—not in the sense of a 'sadness' or a 'downness'—but rather a quality of the atmosphere,

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

At your best, you still won't fulfill the wrong person.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

History will write it's epitaph and future will be a forbidden myth. No child shall grow and no wound shall heal for the whole universe will be locked under the shadow of my resentment.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

Hello darkness, it's me, again. I have promised myself to seize your reoccurring reign but I lost. I allowed myself to hope while forgetting that the higher you hope and stronger you fall to the ground.

[Basel Emam @BaselEmam7]

I will murder time and seconds will be the witness for clocks shall never tick again when love is no longer beating in our hearts.