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Adrien Saell's avatar

Thereโ€™s something beautiful in the way breath becomes both grounding and surrender here. The image of making the wind your friend gives the piece its quiet power.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Than you for adding insights Adrien ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒธ

Adrien Saell's avatar

It was my pleasure reading it:)

Aaliya's avatar

Your words are so powerfully inspiring, the imagery is amazing and beautiful โ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Thank you Aaliya, I appreciate it your comment means a lot to me โค๏ธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿซถ

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

โ€œPerhaps peace begins not by resisting chaos, but by learning how to be carried without losing breath.โ€

That stayed with me.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

What a beautiful insight Antonio ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿซถ๐ŸŒธ

Data Frank's avatar

The poem locates peace not as the absence of chaos but as a different relationship with it. The wind does not become safe, it becomes familiar. That distinction matters because most people are waiting for the storm to stop before they decide to breathe and the poem is saying that the breathing is actually what changes the experience of the storm, not the other way around.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Thank you for this note. I really love how you put it in words that make complete sense ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ™

Data Frank's avatar

Thanks so much.

Palabra Rota | Broken Word's avatar

Marwa, thank you for reminding me that I don't need wings to fly, just the courage to trust the wind. Your words are the embrace my own chaos needed today.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Thank you Palabra , Iโ€™m really happy this resonated ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿซถ

Penelope's avatar

โ€œ Forget riding waves

ride the windโ€ ๐Ÿ”ฅโœจ

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

๐Ÿซถ๐ŸŒธ

Keiichiro Iwamoto's avatar

Nice to meet you, Marwa. The idea of riding the wind is something I never had before. I have always thought that going with the flow means not having my own axis, so I tend to try to control things, and instead of riding the wind, I end up going against it, and maybe that is why things donโ€™t go as smoothly as I want. It might be a bad example, but it feels like taking a shot into a headwind in golf.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Pleasure to meet you Keiichiro. Thank you for sharing this, Iโ€™m really happy to hear this resonated with you ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™๐Ÿซถ๐ŸŒธ

Priya Rajput ๐Ÿ’Œ's avatar

Thereโ€™s something calming in thisโ€ฆ not trying to control the chaos, just learning how to move with it.

โ€œbreathe when you fall, breathe when you riseโ€ stayed with me. ๐Ÿค

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Thank you Priya, Iโ€™m really happy to hear this ๐Ÿซถ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ™

Diana's avatar

Very peaceful lines, such a calming and grounding piece. The line about becoming friends with the wind really stayed with me ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ๐ŸŒป

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Thank you Diana, Iโ€™m really happy this resonated with you ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿ™

Amanda - A Little More Joy's avatar

'people were not made for this

yet hurricanes

carry heavier things...'

Beautiful words. Your hurricane has me pondering...

Power, raw, wild and absolute... It calls us to harness intentions and then be carried: swirled, opened, held, ascended... no wings, just wonder and awe.

Mmmm, yes... thank you.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

๐Ÿ™๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿซถ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ your words are absolutely beautiful

Amanda - A Little More Joy's avatar

Back at you! Joyโ€ฆ

HVR - James's avatar

Maybe it's time I made the wind my friend then.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

๐Ÿ™Œ Iโ€™ll want to know how that goes ๐Ÿ™‚

Firefly in the Forest's avatar

I usually hold my breath in times of chaos and other times too. But I was breathing reading this. It was regulating. I may read it into the wind tomorrow. Beautiful

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Thank you for this very kind and sweet note ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒธ Iโ€™m very happy these words gave you the same state they gave me ๐Ÿ’

Azure Jo Storm's avatar

"there is nothing left to fear

when youโ€™ve made

the wind

your friend" I love how you ended this. This poem showcases so much inner strength, well done.

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Thank you so much, your words mean a lot to me ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿซถ

Heleneโ€™s Algorithms's avatar

Only problem with substack, if you donโ€™t put comma or full stop, one can not quote and restack ๐Ÿซฉ

Heleneโ€™s Algorithms's avatar

I love how light you make the profound.

Its a poem a feel for reading again and again ๐Ÿซถ

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

I love your insights they go directly to my heart โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ

Burnt Eliot's avatar

"Breathing in Silence"

You Wonโ€™t Feel Time Anymoreโ€ฆ - Persian Deep Trance - Apr 16, 2026

New LInk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvRP8FhJlI

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Canโ€™t load the link, I tried yesterday and today โ€ฆ very curious ๐Ÿง

Burnt Eliot's avatar

My error. Sorry. I repaired it.