Poetry
Days Like This
A Poem by RUBANI QAUMI
There are days
I want to be left alone
Plunge deep into my solitude
Envelope myself in it
Listen to the rhythm of my racing heart
The echo of my blood
Rushing through my veins
Meditate upon the rising and falling of my chest
Wallow in its reassuring permanence
There are days
I want to talk
To myself
Converse with my mind
Listen to its every insecurity
Soak in its every fantasy
Amplify the hum of thoughts
And walk along the trajectory
Of its memories
There are days
I want to ask my heart
To whisper its deepest buried secrets
To confess its most unreasonable fears
To console it
To reassure it
As it has done, for many others
That it is not wrong for feeling the way it does
For fretting the way it does
So I embrace my aloneness
For in that spell
I immerse into the familiar
And the untold
For in that moment
I am liberated
I am rejuvenated
I am home.
Rubani Qaumi, 21, is currently studying Life Sciences at the University of Toronto
with the hopes of becoming a surgeon one day. Apart from her fascination with the human body, creativity is what she seeks. So, she writes, reads and designs.
March 25, 2015