World of Words

Friday, December 31, 2021

Kisses From the East Wind.

Posted by HIBA on 3:44 PM in

The wind came from the east today,carrying tears of my lover.A letter, calling me to our abode.The ship has left, so did the last bus.How do I return to a land,so foreign to me?Your memories are distant,so is your name.Then the musky wind kissed my nose,and I travelled time....

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Lessons Learnt In A Dream

Posted by HIBA on 5:44 PM in

Summoning me in Your miraclesEvery slumber You take me on a journey.Today was a path towards Time.A precious creation often looked down on.You who created all that's creating.You who lives beyond all the life.You've been kind than kindness definedLightly in my subconscious teaching me.So I woke up hastily, from...

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Abode

Posted by HIBA on 12:08 PM in

Amidst the temporal bliss this world has cursed and blessed me, there was a yearning erupting inside me.To look for a home, like a fool. And then You, i stumbled upon my journey. You took hold of my soul, shaking it. I felt my sins falling apart.Holding, You close, i wished...

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

A Wail The Wind Carried.

Posted by HIBA on 7:52 PM in

What does one do with all this love they hold?I've drank enough from it, oh beloved!Which mountains have captured you?Which roads have blocked you?Which hands have caged you?Your absence leaves me with a burdened bosom.Walking I wait, running I yearn.Embrace this insane heart you possess.I am exhausted of holding...

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Sinful Love

Posted by HIBA on 3:09 PM in #prose,

What is it that is so sinning about love that it hurts? She asked of a tone more like a mere whisper.It isn't love that's sinning, it's the lover or the act of love. We tend to expect, and that's the first error a human does when they love. Then...

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Eyes

Posted by HIBA on 2:21 AM in poem,

They speak a language, quite unheard. Her eyes, deep in them captured are stories of souls broken.They'd glance at you and make you want to express the unfelt in the most vulnerable way.They are mirrored reflection of what you are, what you mean to her. They are poetry with the...

Friday, December 17, 2021

Humility

Posted by HIBA on 3:10 PM in

A tiny speck of ink blot on the corner,the writer's furious expressions.A splash of paint that fell on the floor,As an artist agressively articulated an art.I am the nothingness that was born.A catalyst between the maker and made.A bridge between the seeker and seen.A tiny particle lost, so...

Monday, December 13, 2021

Art.

Posted by HIBA on 1:05 PM in poems, prose,

Sometimes you find yourself transported into another universe. Your thoughts seem to flow like a river, shrinking your ego amidst the splashes of colors. Art has a gracefully rebellious way of making one humble. You stare at them and wander to different lanes of emotions. You are curious...

Saturday, September 11, 2021

Nature's Canvas

Posted by HIBA on 11:40 AM in

It felt sinful to peep out at the sea. The calm melody it sung was heard and it put my heart to rest. The sky was blushing blue and crimson. As if the moon had not seduced enough, she hung down covering herself partially with what seem like a...

Monday, August 16, 2021

Tormented Yearning.

Posted by HIBA on 10:07 PM in

Did the mountains call me, or are they echoing your cry for my presence?Zuv, when shall this torment of yearning end, so that i shall find myself moving towards eternity? I feel death has come so long before i died. It has found an abode within me. And so...

Maybe.

Posted by HIBA on 10:05 PM in

Maybe, just maybe on a parallel universe, or at a different time and space, I'd wake up, to the blessed sight of you, in serenity sleeping, with your gentle arms tucked by my waist. I'd be surprised and as everyday, to what deed have I been granted this. I'd...

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Moment Before.

Posted by HIBA on 11:08 PM in

There's a blade that cuts through my fingers as i spill these words, so if they are stained of red, my dear fret not they are only your sweet lady's rawness.I don't want to be stopped, so amidst the struggle i wish to pen this here.I want to...

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Ramadan 3 - Fajr Thoughts.

Posted by HIBA on 5:00 AM in

There's so much I want to tell you. It feels like everything in this world should pause so that we can have a conversation. Or maybe I shall pause myself and sit beside You. There's this heart that I want to place in Your hands first. I know the...

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Ar-Rahman

Posted by HIBA on 10:40 AM in

Another Ramadan is here and I am excited like a child. When I heard the imam start Takbeer I felt my heart expand and lighten. Every stress I carried seems to have lift away and my heart congested and struggling seems to be left with a void. Nothing was...

Monday, April 12, 2021

Ramadan 1

Posted by HIBA on 10:09 PM in

There is a means of kindness I find myself surrounded by at the moment. A sense of ease is endured and I know how my Lord has opened the special door. This is the month of Ramadan and there is nothing but khair everywhere for a believer.The words I...

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Posted by HIBA on 12:06 AM in

Man so flawed dared to use the word "perfection".Proof again of how limited and imperfect we are.....

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Bitter Sweet Memories or Something Like That.

Posted by HIBA on 10:19 PM in

I've missed you. There were days when the bitter coldness you have let me sip on that was a shower of bliss. There is no way you are going to be replaced. After years of what seems like an eternity, we met today. The first time we met, I...

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Solitude. Forest. Reflections

Posted by HIBA on 12:22 AM in

There has always been a yearning. To find space amidst the green lush or a mighty mountain. To sit and contemplate. Or even merely breath. To reflect. Because the amount of energy one requires to pace in today's world is tremendous. And do I have that sort of energy?...

Friday, April 2, 2021

2.4.2021- Risks and Consequences

Posted by HIBA on 10:51 AM in

Today could mark the first step, of what is and will be always wrote down in history as a moment i learnt to make decisions and stick to them. The consequences following this are scary, that makes me want to run back to my cocoon of comforts. Where...

Friday, March 26, 2021

we pay the price for laughing

Posted by HIBA on 7:48 AM in

Yes, we loved each other. More than what this universe could hold. In fact the pandemic broke out the moment we arrived into this little bubble. Ah! The blessings of the Almighty to put us under this trial of a love game. No! I don't call it that anymore....

Burdened earth teaches a lesson

Posted by HIBA on 7:41 AM in

I am wounded. I know. But who isn't in today's world? Isn't this world burdened with bruises that are yet to be cured? Yes! God damn it stinks around. The pleasures are all to recover from the pains of yesterday. And if at all there is a soul that...

Friday, March 12, 2021

Privilege

Posted by HIBA on 9:02 AM in

This is personal and it is going to be long. The reason I felt I have to share this here is with the hope at least one of you would be open to a different side of the world, or maybe a thought. In sha Allah.Last year i...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A simple yearning

Posted by HIBA on 11:27 PM in

Tears rolled down as she sat to write down her journal. She was overwhelmed with feelings and the utter realisation she was lonely. Her desire to love and be loved was being delayed and every other happiness seemed a little less.Is it too much to want such subtle expressions...

a deranged woman's cry for silencing her void.

Posted by HIBA on 11:03 PM in

There's a void that needs to be silenced. I know, how ironical is it that the emptiness rattles so much. But you see, this comes from the absence of a sort of peace. That packed it bag along with your farewell. What am I mad about? Well the sanity...

hope of helpless memory

Posted by HIBA on 11:41 AM in

Sometimes, I have found a haven in moments. In the temporal space, they created. In the absence of chaos. These moments are vivid and struck right in my memories. They are what I call hope. If there was a dust of unconsciousness in me, they would've been tarnished. They...

Monday, February 22, 2021

Healing is (not) static

Posted by HIBA on 12:08 PM in

Time never was kind. It's duty is to keep moving and drag you along with it. If you expect to pause, you are at loss. You are insane. Time walks and you are to walk. The breaking of the heart moves on and heals along with time. But you've...

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Punish Thoughts-1

Posted by HIBA on 9:42 PM in

How do you live like this? With this thought of death surrounding you. Everywhere you look around, you feel suffocated. The urge to puke it all out, but it's somewhere stuck. Ugh. Where am I? What darkness is it that I am surrounded? How are you? I feel I...

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Lessons on Love.

Posted by HIBA on 9:30 AM in

I need love. But I need to unlearn love first. For that, I need to strip out all that's covering me. From the senseless love notes to toxic expressions of love. I need to find myself shamelessly standing unclothed of love. This I need, to be born again with...

Of Written (documenting thoughts)

Posted by HIBA on 9:28 AM in

Sometimes I go across my own words and am surprised at how much they speak to me. And that's when I realise how the Almighty chose me to write them. For they are healing and a reminder for my circumstances.Whenever someone tells me of how they find words from...