Who Said 'Everything About You Was Like a Shipwreck'? - A Powerful Quote by Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire, a British-Somali poet, wrote the poem 'For women who are 'difficult' to love' which includes the line 'you are a horse running alone / and he tries to tame you / compares you to an impossible highway / to a burning house / says you are blinding him / that he could never leave you / forget you / want anything but you / you dizzy him, you are unbearable / every woman before or after you / is doused in your name / you fill his mouth / his teeth ache with memory of taste / his body just a long shadow seeking yours / but you are always too intense / frightening in the way you want him / unashamed and sacrificial / he tells you that no man can live up to the one who / lives in your head / and you tried to change didn’t you? / closed your mouth more / tried to be softer / prettier / less volatile, less awake / but even when sleeping you could feel / him travelling away from you in his dreams / so what did you want to do love / split his head open? / you can’t make homes out of human beings / someone should have already told you that / and if he wants to leave / then let him leave / you are terrifying / and strange and beautiful / something not everyone knows how to love.'