Especially When Disaster Strikes — When I was four years old, we fled my birth country because of a civil war. When we came to Sweden, we first lived in a refugee camp, and later on, they sent us to live in a tiny town a few hours away. In this town, we lived together…

Yet when I look around there are no shackles to be found — Doubt has always had its shackles on me Make something out of yourself they say Yet I struggle to feel free How come when I looked around There were no shackles to be found Only empty spaces to eternity bound All there was instead Were a thousand I’s All standing in a…

When our nervous system feels on fire — Feeling emotionally cornered can cause us to act out of character. Many times, the one that corners us is ourselves. We do it because we know nothing else and we do it because that was modelled for us. We live in a society that glamorizes stress and a fast-paced lifestyle…

Sheltered but confined —

That is a recipe for disaster — Through life, I’ve learned that we are strange creatures indeed. We let our insecurities control our lives. If we are chronic people-pleasers, we might have dug ourselves into a deep hole. We want to be the good guy in everyone's story. This is a recipe for disaster and self-rejection. Why? Because everyone knows a different version of us. But if…

Poetry Challenge —

Without Your Touch In Mind —

Mourning a self that was never there —

And the silence it leaves behind —