Broken Lapse by Zahra Noor Awais — book cover

Broken Lapse

Zahra Noor Awais
Rs 1,100
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About this book

Broken Lapse is a poetry collection about love, loss, and the ghosts that stay. It explores what happens when grief becomes a permanent presence, the waiting, the aching, and the slow survival. These poems are raw, confessional, and for anyone who has ever felt broken and wondered if they would ever be whole again.

Excerpts

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Broken Lapse, p. 5

I wait.
I wait like a clock that forgot
how to count the hours.
I wait like a wound
that stopped bleeding but never healed.

Broken Lapse, p. 83

I asked death for directions,
It pointed to my heart.
Not as an end,
but as the place where it started.

Broken Lapse, p. 94

I am not healed,
I may never be.
I’ve stopped asking to be,
I’ll hold onto the memories like my heart
So close yet too far.

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About the Author

Zahra Noor Awais is a poet who writes from the depths of grief and the longing for connection. She is the author of Lunar Laments (2024). Her work has been featured in two anthologies, a magazine, and internationally in Poem Stellium (UK). For her, poetry is not about being healed, it is about being honest. She writes to make sense of her own loss, and to offer a mirror for others navigating theirs. She believes art is to connect, be it paintings, poetry or music.