This collection of poetry and prose is all about my life, from the very beginning to very recently. It's a tale of my childhood, relationships of all kinds, all sorts of breakups, trauma, the ups and downs of being a teenage human, and the waves of healing. It has a part of my love for storytelling, as some of these are about characters I've made up, along with small stories inside of this book when putting specific poems together. I hope anyone who picks up on them and puts the stories together, thoroughly enjoys them. As you read you will see I put my love for nature in a lot of this, it wasn't by accident and most of these poems have been written while sitting alone thinking about nature and after coming home from hiking. I crafted this book as a way to get rid of this part of me, boiling up inside and turning it into something for everybody to enjoy. For me, this is the one place where heartbreak feels so beautiful.
Life can be brutal and uncaring to some.
Aisha was one of those unfortunate "some"
she had deceived herself into believing she had full control of her life. That she could set the terms of how her life would unfold.
However, life and fate have a way of showing us just how much control we truly have.
How does one cope when the people most important in our lives are ripped away from us?
What does one do when they become the sole guardian of their two younger siblings?
And how does one survive, when you're hated because of your faith.