Only the Brave

By Shahanaz M Meera

About the book:
LOVE, GLASS DOORS and ... RAINBOWS They both have traveled from the stages of being caged to stretching their wings out, from being suppressed to emerging into who they are, from being told a love like this would never last to love is never wrong. One cut down his wings so the other could fly, a sacrifice for the same colored love. Both didn't know how to un-fall in love, they turned to be completely paralyzed in loneliness, no more arms around each other's shoulders, always a distance between, it grew, intensionally it was meant to be grown even when none of them wanted it that way. Will they be able to survive the already written standards of the society, will they be able to recall what love once was, and will they be able to reunite?
About the author:
Shahanaz M Meera is an author who grew up on the Southern side of India. Growing up, she was captivated by Cricket, this interest led to some early exposure to reading since she was drawn to stories related to Cricket. A certain interest in poetry arose by the time around 2017 when she used to scribble random poems out of nowhere and this led to a constructive phase in her poetry. A Software Engineer at the moment, writing poems turned out to be a passion upon which she is trying to succeed. Recently, her first-ever poetry collection named TORN got published which is indeed the beginning of a milestone ahead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pencil
• Release date: May 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9789356106826

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ONLY THE BRAVE

BY

Shahanaz M Meera

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Author biography

Shahanaz M Meera grew up in the Southern side of India, Growing up, she was captivated with Cricket, this interest led to some early exposure to reading since she was drawn to stories related to Cricket. A certain interest in poetry arose by the time around 2017 when she used to scribble random poems out of nowhere and this led to a constructive phase in her poetry. A Software Engineer at the moment, writing poems turned out to be a passion upon which she is trying to succeed. Recently, her first-ever poetry collection named TORN got published which is indeed the beginning of a milestone ahead.

Contents

If Loneliness Had a NAME

In the SAME PAGE

Birthday Cake

Christmas Eve

New Year Never Came

For all the dried up TEARS

To Begin AGAIN

Hold YOU near

Let's Not BREAK APART

YoU and Me

What You LOVED

Lost In YOU

Stepping Out

If You DON'T LOVE Me

I'M SORRY

FOREVER Is Not Real

Coldness In LOVE

All You Did Was SAVE ME

Is It Too HIGH

3 AM

It's BETWEEN us

All the PLACES TOGETHER

Your EYES

We Will Survive

Are We Enough

To LOVE and to NEVER Let Go

The World Will Know

HOME

Epigraph

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? – James Baldwin

Preface

You told me of the stars and the rainbow, I'm here somewhere afar from the ground searching for you in the crowds,  I cannot find, these lights blinded my vision, these heights took off the ladder, how will I come down, will there ever be a chance?. Please search for me and find me, this life it's not all it's cracked up to be

Acknowledgements

I decided to try and write a book about two individuals who directly or indirectly changed many people's lives time after I got to know them better. There were already a considerable number of books written for them, but yet a poetry collection was never there. I asked myself this question a couple of times and always ended up giving a, yes, probably this needs to be done. I have learned about their life a little more than I already knew, read, and watched. It painted me a picture that wasn't already there. I have had suggestions on how to improve the book, and how to make it sound like a story, a life, and give it life. Most of them, I've written with a paper and a pen, in a calm and quiet place so that I could really indulge in what I really wanted. It took me a lot of time to develop the storyline, it started off with drawing some random pictures and arranging them, so they would make sense. I'm very grateful to my sister Shermina M Meera for the constant support she has been giving me from the very beginning. I'm very thankful to all those lovely people