World Poetry Day 2025

It’s the UNESCO World Poetry Day today. This year’s theme is Peace and Unity. It’s also the 21st day of Ramadan, and I have secluded myself for the next 10 days in a masjid to seek peace within myself and oneness with the Almighty. In keeping with the day and theme, I will try and […]

Gaza

I woke up last night around 3am, gripped by a nameless fear. Unbidden the following words entered my mind: When the missiles stop fallingAnd the tanks stop rollingWhen the fathers stops callingAnd the mothers stop wailingWhen the orphans realise nobody’s comingAnd the last building stops crumblingThe sound that is most deafeningIs the silence were once […]