NAZIRA'S NOTEBOOK

Tag: #writing

  • Woken By The Write

    Electively dumb Curiously numb Permission to speak Never given Permission to feel Never given Process sharpened To manage and control Calculations and algorithms Seek and destroy missiles At the first sign The first flicker Jumped on Snuffed out Pre-emptively neutralised It isn’t okay This silence Disconnection Detachment To care only of doing a good job →

  • The Knot

    There’s a knot in my stomach Don’t know why it’s here A disproportionate response To an irrational fear There’s a knot in my stomach As I step onto the scales Weight’s crept up a few more pounds Another diet fails There’s a knot in my stomach As I think back to him The now insignificant →

  • Kilimanjaro

    Other people take on mountains. I can barely conquer my local park. For heaven’s sake, Who thought to put it on a hillside? The angle of the right-side slope Burns my lungs And makes my calves scream For relief from the pain. This might be just a park to you, But for me This is →

  • Despair

    Emptiness consumes Light ebbs away Darkness overtakes Fingers drum on table Head drops to the side Heart falls into a pit Tear well runs dry Prayer flies away Hope gives up Don’t know what to do Where to go Except the end But it is not my place To take me there So I wait →

  • You-Turn

    I try And I try How I try To leave To not believe To forget about you And I do I do Sometimes Get somewhere Far Very far So far away From you You Oh you Always you I remember I miss I need I love And I stumble I stutter I stall I falter →