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Somewhere Between Grief and God

Fatima Usman Bajwa
Rs 950
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About this book

Somewhere Between Grief and God is an anthology that covers the aspects of human life. How at every passing second something in us feels hollow.

It asks the questions that sit deep in your heart and slowly rot your mind.

With answers that feel like dawn after a fire.

These pages hold fragments of a heart that is lost in an abyss and the prayers it whispers loud enough for the God who hears them.

Excerpts

Somewhere Between Grief and God, p. 24

We are desperate souls.
That ache to be remembered,
To leave a mark beyond this illusion.
To shine even when burned out.
Perhaps the cruelest way of existence is not hatred.
It is the silence of being forgotten.

Somewhere Between Grief and God, p. 29

And, for I thanked the fire—
For burning me in a way that left my soul blooming,
And I thanked the thorns—
For reminding me that not everything in sight,
Is meant to be held.

Somewhere Between Grief and God, p. 39

We tear flowers from their roots just to admire them.
Perhaps that is why we split spirits open
just to see what they are hiding.
To cradle hearts like gardeners pluck flowers and call it devotion.
To search between ribs, to overlook the secrets that haven’t bloomed yet.
But beauty may never survive the pain of being plucked by the roots.
To be broken,
To be carved into secrets.
A flower does not thank the gardener—
For setting it free.

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About the Author

Some people learn to say many things in many ways. And that is the art of writing. At a very young age, I knew what I wanted—to put words in such a way that even when it would hurt, something about my pain would glow.

I am specifically drawn to things that help you escape. The things that make us human; when we feel too much or too little.

Writing is something that has always felt like belonging. I have loved many things in this life, but none has ever felt quite like writing. Because somewhere along my life words became a shadow for me.

Having written two books and one novella has always meant more than just an achievement to me.

“Somewhere Between Grief and God" is an attempt to give language to emotions that always feel too heavy.