Author Archives: Saarah Karim

Isolation is to be left out when you want to be in That dull sense of loneliness that haunts you within Isolation is feeling alone even when people are near And feeling the rush of blood pounding in your ear Isolation is staying away from people, afraid they won’t talk back Counting how many timesContinue reading “Isolation”

Even when bombs cease to devastate The wounded moan in agony still And the wandering orphan wanders Through wailing winds of piercing chill No weeping willows left to weep An empty landscape, ruined lands And from a grieving mother’s eyes, tears seep At the sight of her child’s blood on her hands The horizon isContinue reading “Conflict”

I am one of the many members Of a dark and lonely world All that is left are diminished embers Where the fire of sight once burned I can’t see the prismatic petals all of a different hue Scattered in grass glistening with morning dew And I can’t see the snow falling without a soundContinue reading “Eyes of Shadows”

Some taste beauty in the salt of the seas Others smell beauty in earth and trees Some can see beauty glowing in the skies Yet nobody can pinpoint where beauty lies Is beauty the falling of snowflakes without a sound Making a blanket of white on the ground? Or autumn filled with red and goldContinue reading “Beauty”

The beautiful blinking fairy lights Illuminate the sky Their sequin silver and polar white Forces me to sigh The darkness consumes everything But fails to envelop The glow, the gleam, the glimmering I see when I look up At the speckles of light that twirl and dance Across the perpetual blanket of ink I amContinue reading “Sonnet of the Stars”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.