No one gives a fuck about my nightmares No use in isolating when I’m right here Dissociating during the day Catching up on sleep always Who’d give a fuck about my nightmares? Waking up in a cold sweat Feeling low…
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Rijaa Khan
I scream and shake with envy the nerves inspire jealousy of all the girls taking up not as much space as me can’t believe you had the nerve to call me made things worse but you plead “I’m sorry” so…
I’ll look after you for now because always means what it always has it’s not if we get sick of each other it’s why and when and how how quick we boil each other’s blood the wounds have started to…
I know what we’re doing tonight like we’ve done a hundred times listening to the same songs we sang a thousand rhymes songs are just like poems lines we remembered together like the one you wrote for me “you are…
Eid Mubarak (say it back)! I remember being plucked out of school for two days out of the year, Eid al-Fitr (after Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha. My sister Zoya and I were embarrassed by the traditional desi clothing we were…
My South Asian mother always praised me for saving her money. I never had any issues with my teeth compared to my siblings, each with braces and retainers galore. With that also comes the costs of adjustments and constant check…
There’s a whole world of shitty therapists out there, discouraging people from navigating mental health services when they’re already so reluctant to seek out help. Therapists can deter you from growth, even though their job is the complete opposite. You…
Spring, 2020. I was enraged at my professors’ ineptitude to navigate online learning. Already starting the semester off as self-proclaimed “old-fashioned teachers”, they didn’t even know how to post grades on the school’s online platform. Granted, there was not enough…
Winter, 2019. We shouldn’t have lasted past this. Alex was sharing feelings and thoughts with me that he hadn’t with another human. I dragged those words out of him by showing him, overemphatically, that I cared just so he would…
Fall, 2019. Alex and I start our senior years at different schools but we still work together. I spend all of my time either at school or driving to school, then working every weekend. The responsibilities I had really kept…