Noor Jehan Ahmad

I know, I told you, I’d keep moving, And I do, I really do, Night and day, I push and push, Night and day I move, But sometimes, Sometimes, I picture you in the sand, As I lay on top of it, Like a layer of tears all over you, Sometimes, I find your voice […]

With your hand on the left side of my chest, You ask why it doesn’t sting any longer, You ask how the scars managed to fade away, How do I explain, that it was you, How do I explain, that you were the one who took this heart built of faults, Built of dents, and […]

Blame has been written, With the blood from your own fingers, All over this facade of mine, That you have built From your own cement inside, I understand that it seems unbreakable, Completely rid of cracks I will not say it is wrong, But I will ask you, Where does the part where, I’m not […]

The stutter in my voice, were your hands playing with my mouth Like a needle and thread, sewing in and out, Until I was silent You thought I could not tower over your control, And told me that I could not go back, To the freedom I once called my own, Well now, the world […]

I wanted to buy you a guitar, So you could intertwine your words with a tune But as I walked to the store, Life came my way Daddy said he found the pills, That I had hid yesterday, Your birthday came along, I wanted to show you how much I love you But as I […]

The waves, they are my days, They can either take me for a light ride, To feel the breeze, Or hit me too hard, And turn into a disaster, The sand is my heart, It can be toyed with and misplaced But as the sun rises, It finds its way back on its own The […]

How precious is time, Like the winter of South Asia, And a summer of England, We are never able to tell, that it has passed by, As joy makes us forget the fragility it holds When a loved one is fading away, And each memory forms a wrinkle on our skin, Time loses us in […]

You are the architect, Of this masterpiece, handed to you, The windshield of your fogged up car The remote to your machine, Eyes for the blind in you Why did it turn the other way around? Who are you waiting for to guide you? You are not stranded, on an island But, you’re the wind […]

They have been told, That the soil they inhabit, Is developing, progressing But the reality is, It is just a wound that is healing, From centuries of oppression, Centuries of destruction, And then being left alone, To grow what they still could, Look at them; do you see what I see? Strength, resilience, in the […]