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This reads as a claim that the deepest human experiences come when we stop trying to control everything. Birth, love, and death are moments of release and surrender, where the self cannot stay fully in command. It can land for someone facing a major life transition, when acceptance matters more than mastery, and openness is the only honest response.
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About Kamand Kojouri
writer, poet, and academic
Kamand Kojouri is a writer, poet, and academic, and a fellow of the Emirates Literature Foundation. She is known for her poetry and prose, and for two poetry collections, The Eternal Dance and God, Does Humanity Exist? Her poems and short stories have appeared in anthologies and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her work has also been featured in El País, The Irish Times, and BBC Persian Television. Her poem “Let My Silence Grow” was later adapted into a chorale composition by Zachary J. Moore and performed internationally, including by the Luther College Nordic Choir.
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