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Book 09 · Quiet Hours

Jareet

جريت

LongingCalm

Poems inspired by SNX's songs, retold by AIA Labs.

From the song

Jareet جريت by SNX

A song about running. A woman runs and arrives, again and again, at the same place, and finds herself alone on a road that is not far. She blames fate, or says it was written, and wishes she had met him sooner, before things were decided. She also blames him, because he wrote it for her. Why did he never tell her? She says she knows she was wrong. Then comes the turn: she cannot do it a second time. She would carry on if she could, but she cannot begin again, so she runs toward the unknown, with her own hand the only thing she trusts. The voice ends in refusal rather than in grief.

Deeper meaning

Running here is both escape and exhaustion. The song takes the shape of a person who has outrun everything and finds nothing at the end, only the same self. There is no bitterness in it, only the tiredness of someone who knows that starting over costs more than she has.