Describe yourself in a poem//
I am the sun waiting to rise — hoping to dim a little more unapologetically
Distanced from the past and everything it holds
A fleeting friend who wishes to care but possesses the inability
The mind which happens to know little but is not afraid to learn
A simplified math equation, yet difficult to solve
Disconnected from worldly affairs, slowly finding myself to be enough
The thread keeping the family together
My brothers’ favorite siblings, my parents’ savior
A hopeless romantic — it is love that keeps me alive
The jigsaw puzzle that takes weeks to figure out
Attached to books — even the ones that lay untouched
Confused between prayers that will bring me contentment and those that I must make
A story waiting to be discovered
An awakened soul just moments away from living
~~ Zainab Khan
