Human Emotions

By Zaighum Sharif

Each and everyone of us has our own human emotions. Days can be filled with happiness whereas other days can be full of sadness. The uniqueness of one’s emotions can very rarely be understood by others. It is really difficult if not impossible to tell others how you feel or for them to understand how you are feeling.
I have tried in this book to cover the inner most boundaries of human emotions splitting my poems into different realms of human thought. Hope, fate and destiny, joy, life, the world, loneliness, love, regrets, religion and the future are all covered in this book.
I hope the reader can relate to and understand my poems and bring some perspective and reasoning towards their life. We are all not the same and never can be but we all have a heart and soul.
By identifying these moments of thought I hope I can bring perspective and understanding to the reader.
I hope you enjoy my book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jan 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398427228

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About the Author

Zaighum was brought up in very humble surroundings in Birmingham, England. He was very shy and introverted when young. Despite this, Zaighum managed to become highly educated and worked at high levels after graduating with a Masters degree from Birmingham University. He runs a very successful organisation helping to tackle poverty and those who need help. He also has set up a charity which helps orphans and poor children overseas. Zaighum is married with four children. He started writing his poetry to express his thoughts over many decades. This collection gathers together material from his own life experiences and his thoughts about the world around him.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my wife Shafeen, my mother, my children Ibrahim, Nasiyba, Aaida and Ismail, my three sisters and brother, Shafayet as well as all of my family and friends.

Zaighum Sharif

Human Emotions

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Introduction

Each and every one of us has our own human emotions. Some days can be filled with happiness, whereas other days can be full of sadness. The uniqueness of one’s emotions can very rarely be understood by others; it is really difficult, if not impossible, to tell others how you feel or for them to understand how you are feeling. For many years I have been writing poetry on a wide range of subjects with no real pattern or set routine. At moments I have just sat down and written something which came into my head. It may have come from something which happened to me that day or a past experience that I remembered. There have been times when I have written a poem and the next day I cannot remember even writing it or understand why I wrote the poem. It’s as if words are given to me and I end up writing them in this form. I have tried in this book to cover the innermost boundaries of human emotions, splitting my poems into different categories of human thought. This is an impossible task, but I have tried to instil as much common human emotion as possible. My writing style is aimed to make it easy for the reader with the majority of my poems rhyming. I hope the reader can relate to and understand my poems and bring some perspective and reasoning towards their life. We are all not the same and never can be but we all have hearts, minds and souls and every one of us laughs, cries, feels and has thoughts. Quoting one of my poems, ‘learn from the past so that you can make a change to what is fated. Live in the future so the past mistakes do not get recreated.’ I hope you enjoy my book.

Fate And Destiny

The Travellers

Here we are at the start and the beginning again

Bringing us to the clouds and the rain

Not realising or knowing when the pain will start

Going back and returning to the places where we lost our heart

Searching for the one who will return us to that street

Where we once saw that our two hearts were meant to meet

The one who would make our dreams and smiles which we once saw

The one who was supposed to open that closed door

To a world which was full of smiles

Where our happiness was going to be as long as a million miles

Not knowing who that person was meant to be

Not knowing whether our soul was ever going to be set free

So come now and enter my world where I have been waiting for you for so long

Come to me and hold me so you go to where you belong

A new world that will let your heart live

Give you a life where you will be able to have as well as be able to give

Our time is now and we must face each other to realise where we are

Or let things go and let our hopes and dreams travel from afar

Virtues

Life’s journey has taken us to many different stars

Each one leaving its mark and leaving its scars

Destiny taking us and leaving us to the unknown

The silence of our pain is with us as we have grown

In a world of greed and unfound virtues

In a world where the evil win and the good lose

Our innocence lost when it was found

Our dreams burnt into the ground

It has been with honour and respect we have survived

Dreams may have been forgotten but our souls we didn’t hide

Turning to our dignity to remain as one

Letting things go by knowing that they have gone

Honour in our life and truth in our hearts

Not looking at endings just new starts

Looking at what is good in people and not in life

Away from the hate which causes so much strife

Happiness has never been too far away

Keeping your own virtues continuing to pray

Right through to your last and final day

Visions

Forever we are living with forgetful visions

Losing our way with lost and distant ambitions

Going in the direction of a path that leads nowhere

Holding on to our dreams despite our dismay and despair

All alone in a world in which no one cares

Facing up to the cruel harsh realities that life bears

Not knowing each day that our hearts are breaking

By not going on the path that we should be taking

Leaving too many things which have been left behind

Looking for new things which we are unable to