Shadows Of Life

By NAZREEN

The Shadows of Life are emotions; the thoughts, desires, and aspirations trailing in our wake. Shadowlike in manner but shrouded by our physical form, we often seek to reveal them only in the darkness—sometimes of the day but other times, of our lives.

Segregated into three sections, this book is a compilation of poems and prose, dealing with quotidian feelings such as love, longing, lamentation, and moreover, the spaces between them. Painting myriad pictures, the words in it will resonate with the reader’s own voice, rendering life to the untold stories carried within.

For in the matters of the heart, we are all one and the same.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Avonlea Publishing
• Release date: Feb 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9789352676743

NAZREEN

Nazreen is a Saudi-based doctor who prefers writing to the hospital. Enthralled by storybooks and poetry since childhood, she has published regularly in leading literary journals and newspapers. 'Shadows', woven from the chaos we know as life, was completed in 2016 right after she finished medical school.

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Introduction

The Shadows of Life are emotions; the thoughts, desires, and aspirations trailing in our wake. Shadow-like in manner but shrouded by our physical form, we often seek to reveal them only in the darkness—sometimes of the day but other times, of our lives.

Segregated into three sections, this book is a compilation of poems and prose, dealing with quotidian feelings such as love, longing, lamentation, and moreover, the spaces between them. The words in it will resonate with the reader’s own voice, rendering life to the untold stories carried within.

For in the matters of the heart, we are all one and the same.

Contents

Introduction

PART 1

MOTHER

REPRESSED

BROKEN

LETTERS

PAIN

WAVE

TEMPORARY PEOPLE

HAPPINESS

LABYRINTH

SECOND CHOICE

WHOSE MISTAKE?

GYPSY

APPEARANCES

THE ONE

UNANSWERED

DREAMWORLD

FIRE

SEARCH

MIRAGE

SUSPENDED

FORSAKEN

THE WANING

CHAOS

OPPOSITES

STUCK

CHOOSE WISELY

UNSTABLE

INCUBUS

SPACES

STIGMA

ACQUIESCENCE

THE OTHER WOMAN

FORGIVENESS

HALVES

TEMPLE

REGRETS

HEARTACHE

A PROMISE

YOU ARE ENOUGH

TIME AND SPACE

ULTIMATE

PART 2

WRITER’S REALM

HALTED

FORBIDDEN LOVE

LETTING GO

RELAPSE

A BEAUTIFUL LIE

GONE

THE OTHER AND I

EVANESCING

FLINTHEART

MOMENTS

ENAMORED

WISTFUL WISH

INNER HAPPINESS

THE END

COMPREHENSION

HEARTBREAKER

DISILLUSIONED

A WILFUL FANCY

ONCE MORE

THE WRONG GUY

A HANDFUL OF DREAMS

THE EX

MOVING ON

YOUR NAME

SCHIZOPHRENIC’S DESK

INEBRIATE

BOHEMIAN

WINTER FALLS

SOUL-MATES

FLORESCENCE

MERMAID SONG

THE DEPARTED SOUL

FOREVER AND A DAY MORE

PART 3

LIGHT OF MY LIFE

AFTERMATH

CHOICE

QUESTION

UNCHANGEABLE

NAME

FURY

EXISTENCE

PARADOX

NOTHINGNESS

INCOMPATIBLE

IF ONLY

FALLOUT

INTERTWINED

BETRAYAL

About The Author

PART 1

MOTHER

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High and low

I have searched

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From end to end

Of this globe

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And yet,

Not managed to find

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A love greater

Than my mother’s.

REPRESSED

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Here I stay,

Chained with a sigh

Despite my dreams

That mount so high.

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I see the butterflies

Spread their wings and fly.

Why then are my wings,

Doomed to die?

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These binds rein me in

From the sky,

Where I long to be

If only I could try.

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Whose egos am I feeding,

As here I lie?

With my fire

Left to dry.

BROKEN

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When I think of you,

There is no longer

Any bright light. 

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No more any

Crystal dreams

Or petals milky white. 

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There is only an empty chill,

The kind you feel

On a deserted road at twilight.

LETTERS

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I wish I could

Write your name

A thousand times

And a thousand more

On this piece of paper.

Write every letter,

Pour this utmost desire

Onto these alphabets

And scatter them high

Into the air

Till they descend

Like the rains that shower

Upon my heart.

PAIN

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Wilted leaves have never

Turned green again.

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Fire has not ever re-sprung

From an ash stain.

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Then why won’t you let go

Of your pain?

WAVE

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You were