#struggle

People often say that things get really bad right before they finally clear up. Honestly, I just saw this happen in my own life. For fifteen days straight, I was completely jobless here in Lahore. I spent

Something disturbing was about to happen and I couldn't prevent it.

Where I am now...

I stubbornly continue the martyrdom, in a self-imposed exile

As the soft light of the afternoon began to calm the surroundings, the money for the tuition arrived in my pocket. On this day of the month, my heart waits for something different. The joy of receiving

Today my heart is very heavy and my small rented room in Lahore feels completely silent. It has been ten long days since I lost my job at the clothing store. Ten days of sitting inside these four walls,

The words I can't say are holes I punch in the walls of my psych

To create a work of art is to create the world

The tragedy of man is he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling

I was trying to control my present by manipulating my past

The kind of qualities that once made me a successful writer were stirred up inside me once more.

My workshops are hollow because I recycycle advice I no longer believe

I was ready to resign as writer-in-residence before I even began

Writers tend to be vulnerable but Im scared of letting go of the familiar

I washed up like a dead fish and had nothing to show for it but the scars

Life is a hassle. Not in a poetic way, just in the everyday way it piles up on you. You wake up and there is always something waiting. Money, work, people, expectations, all pulling at you at once. Some

I bought a house and got a boarder as a resident ghost

Not all life’s problems could be easily solved by the addition of a man.

There are times when money feels scarce, bills pile high, and every step feels slow and heavy, like moving through deep darkness. But even when you can only crawl, every small move brings you closer to