Poems

Hina reflects: ‘Allah had a plan for you and this was not it.’

Though I only saw you as an image on a screen I still love you, with every inch of my being...

You are my fish-flapping, lost, slip of life, My speck, I had only a short time With your real-unreal, what-might-have-been image...

How can I miss you? I never knew you. How can I feel empty? You’d barely begun.

Sisters and brothers, dear my dears, it was not pleasant for you any time.

Like losing an eyelash – A miscarriage that is ‘missed’. A silent separation from my most important wish. You floated away and I was completely unaware, I didn’t think this was it… I thought it was a scare. Three days…

It was the tiniest leaf that fell from the big oak tree, so tiny yet so perfectly formed but never meant to be.

It’s hard to find the words my darling, The words people expect to hear. Like how I can’t live any longer, Knowing you’re not here.

Angry red stain Signals the end. 5 weeks of attachment Erased in a moment.

We were surprised, but delighted at the news we were expecting you. Much quicker than we thought – given my age. We watched with excitement as your bump grew, and I tried to eat well and keep fit, took my…