Happy 21?

Close your eyes and travel back 21 years in time. The day is a mere four hours old. Dawn is peeking through the black, velvet skies awaiting the arrival of a new soul. It’s a magical night.
A baby is born. Nothing short of a miracle for the anxious mother who expected her second child to [...]

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News Flash: Hajera is sick – Part I

I have a cold. A painfully, terribly, horribly, horrendous cold. A throat infection, according to the nice doctor lady my mom dragged me to see this afternoon. And when I say drag, I mean literally, drag. She had to beg and plead and put up with my scathing remarks about why doctors are inept and [...]

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Silence

Don’t ask me why I feel this way
I’m still searching for a flawless answer
Until then my silence will greet you
There’s beauty in silence, they say.
Don’t ask me why I won’t grasp the chance
I can’t live in the moment just yet
Opportunity knocks but once, yes,
Dear, I’m still waiting for the perfect one.
Don’t ask me why it’s [...]

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Pain

It seems so frivolous and hypocritical of me to be writing about heart-wrenching grief when I have been spared from experiencing the kind of pain and sadness that simply becomes enmeshed in your sense of self—a perpetual pain that lingers through life, a pain that even the strongest rays of sunshine can’t blind away; a [...]

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