Shoaib .

It’s almost Christmas and another year appears to have come to an end listless
I’ve become numb to the fact my wishlist always hinges on things that can be taken away in an instance
Take for…

I miss you and I’ve been missing you for days
Where does the time go when we talk for hours and nothing stays?
I close my eyes and we part ways
I want to say…
Hey beautiful
I wish I c…

I’m in a place that transverses planes
My words are plain as day and still my verses rain
Dispersed like grains; see, I tread through the reeds that seep and drain
Some days I traverse ter…

She’s an angel with reasons
Answering the prayers to which I’ve been pleading
I asked “Please Lord, give me a reason to believe in them”
And as this angel descended while I prayed kneeling …

I wrote my first poem on a paper airplane
Because I had no idea how else to give it wings
I was once to afraid to share them with others
Part of the anxiety that the fear of failure brings …

We are birthed head first puzzles sent out as screaming vesicles
Placenta cut and like fossils entombed in sediment – still incomplete
See, even temples built in clay and thoughts
Often do…

Today I sung horribly in my car
At the top of my lungs and while some looked scoffing
I thought of a memory when I was young
A remnant the smell of smoke often brings
I was saved by a …

I wake up to another ninety three million mile sun shining through
Eight minutes ago you left and it hit me now like a thousand sunsets’ hues
If I could hold you for a second longer then I wo…

I had this dream…. I was walking down the dark alley of an alternate reality
It was filled with people in costumes who felt that they had to battle me
I wanted to simply inquire why? But th…

I breathe in and think in oxygenation
Tied to living by chains of alpha globulin and desperation
Heme binding my blood and DNA unwinding with patience
Another day and another hour goes by …

I remember going fishing my very first time
It wasn’t any special day or any special line
I caught the first fish basically without trying
But this fish didn’t put up any fight so I felt it…

Yellow tape around my body
As I lie on the ground lifeless
A detective stands over me kneeling
She says "I’ve never seen anything like this"

"Look, his eyes are open
and his heart is st…

I see a picture and in an instant instantly I seem to obsess over her and what she used to mean
Constantly stressing me when I think about our past incessantly and how she used to be
The funn…

The old story goes that when we die our soul goes
And ascends to the heavens above, but who really knows?
But I’m not concerned about where my soul will go
Because I’m still trying to fin…

What were we? …Seeds
Lost in our own worlds floating free
And honestly
That’s just how I wanted to be…
But whenever I think of you I’m thankful that I know
That seeds grow

_Protect…

At the beginning of the day we wake to a world of endless possibility
And as the day progresses we go through obstacles that challenge our abilities
Going through happiness and heartbreak te…

I breathe. I bathe. Hot water because I’m cold; so cold, alone, and afraid
Relieved that I lived. Retreat into my mind, I was told… ^{I should be thankful to be alive}
Anger. Anguish. I relinq…

Running barefoot to you I feel my feet get cut from the pavement
You said give it your best shot and then took everything as I gave it
You asked if I was more afraid of loving or being hurt –…

Close your eyes because a blink is all it takes
Like a weak link you break through me like a chain
It’s crazy like schizo I feel like I’m out of my brain
Picture my face it’s so lit like a …

I think I was 16, old enough to know better
But young enough to not care
I ran up a down escalator…
Something about not backing down from a dare
Maybe it was the freedom in defiance
Or…