Waiting In the Void: For A Moment of Epiphany

By Rima Jbara

Autumn’s choices left her misunderstood and isolated. She walked with oblivion. She found herself talking to only herself. The burden of knowing and seeing too much at a young age defined her stillness.

As I wander my way through the years. Sometimes searching to avoid my mind. Sometimes lost from promises and lies. Sometimes waiting to save me from myself.

The restrictions between my solitude life, my inconsistent creativity and my graphic implementation were no longer visible resulting in the conversations, letters, stories, and poetry you are about to read.

Rima Jbara’s self-discovery and deconstruction of emotions in her measured evolution led to a bold reinvention of storytelling in an unvarnished manner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Sep 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823084468

Rima Jbara

Rima Jbara was born on 20th August 1979, in Damas, and spent most of her childhood writing short stories and eventually novels. At the age of 14, she published her first novel and by the time she turned 15, she gave readers her first bestseller. Rima’s zest for writing continued as she released Road To Hell, The Mystique of Asmahan and Shams. It took Rima three years to write Hope, which was called “a masterpiece” by many critics and readers. Through her writing, Rima has fought tradition and reality, and has always chosen daring topics to shock conventional people.

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/05/2023

ISBN: 979-8-8230-8445-1 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-8446-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023916885

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Pain

Breathe

Tears

Limbo

Sorry, Not Sorry

Make it Go Away

Sanity

Tears In Heaven

Like A Peach

A Better Place, A Better Time

15 And Life

Logical Insanity

Mind

He Did It to Himself

Picture To Burn

Too Far

A Life in the Future

Where Is My Mind?

Fear

Creature Fear

Private Growing Pains

From Here to Eternity

Stream of Consciousness

The Unnamed Feeling

Doubt

Blurry Words

If You Find Yourself Caught in Love

Dreams

When You Believe

End It on This

Dog

Being Human

Woof

Our Dogs, Ourselves

Dog Lover’s Heart

The Reason A Dog

Child

The Baby

Real

Certain Surprise

A Beggar & His Dog

Can’t Be Replaced

Love

Sincerely Yours

I Don’t Need Anyone

Fading like A Flower

Rejection

Craven

God

The Father

The Mother

Contemplating

Find A Little Faith

You Don’t Know About Me

Life

Hoopoe

Accelerated Reader

Stone-Hearted

A Little Too Much

Life! How To Live It...

Other Books

Let Me Have My Say

Riot In My Senses

Thoughts That Ignite Elation

Muddy Minutes

Tangled Words

A Dream for Two

Silent Ruin

Miss Temptation

Kahraman

Hope

Shams

The Mystique of Asmahan

Road To Hell

Colors of Love

Golden Love

Powerful Love

To My Fur Baby Soy

Whose unconditional love transcends the grave

INTRODUCTION

Hell can be other people. We carry around our potential for damnation or salvation within ourselves. Eventually, one can become vulnerable to everything and can be eligible for death.

Finding a place in my broken world. Nothing is what it seems, to be living in my empty dreams. To have my sensory world made real. A wounded soul resides here and a languished heart throb here.

Propelled by phantasmagorical impressions and psychedelic perceptions that were from within and without. Looked but not seen. Heard but not listened. Touched but not protected. A wandering soul in a sorrowful state.

What if? a question that never left my thoughts, to have the possibility of living every experience in nirvana and encounter euphoric moments.

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PAIN

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Dear Pain,

You were and remain a despised companion that lingered for the most part of my life in an unwelcome manner. You have confined me from confidence and from liberty. Furthermore, you have restrained my desire in being normal and do what others normally did. I would never live that condition. I can only hear about it.

All these years, I spent most of my time hidden behind walls and thank God walls don’t speak. My physical