life

poetry by SamiraJune 17, 2025

Sneakers in a plastic bag

Today I opened Instagram Saw explosions first Scrolling by Afraid My family is beneath the rubble On the other side Of that bomb I can’t look Because What I find Will prove Once and for all The fear I always had That in leaving that land In search of freedom Without realizing In our assimilation […]

poetry by SamiraDecember 30, 2024December 30, 2024

Night Run

Ever since They cut my head open Drilled through my skull Explored and excavated Where my tumor grew I stopped crying But only From my right eye Maybe the nerves they cut Just a little too close to As though they flew Too close To what was my sun My eyes Squinting in the light […]

poetry by SamiraOctober 19, 2024

North Star

She was A guiding light An ocean apart Yet hearts linked She built in all of us Brick by brick Her joy Her courage Her confidence Her smile She was our north star Her light Her laughter Her song Her spirit Guiding us Holding us Remembering us When they say shirezan Lioness They mean you […]

poetry by SamiraMay 3, 2024

Seen

He came to my office Sat in my chair Told me he loved me He was proud to be there My Dad is my hero One of the best So I’ll keep that memory Tied tight to my chest

poetry by SamiraApril 5, 2022

Forever mine

I miss you I’ve been missing you I had hope you’d come back That the anger would thaw That we’d get to hug And I’d hear you say “hey” In the way that you did Even when deep in pain And we’d started to walk Quietly back Toward each other Though gently So you wouldn’t […]

poetry by SamiraJanuary 29, 2022

Tired

Tired To my bones My pace Relentless My body Fatigued It is invisible So am I And that makes me all the more Tired.

poetry by SamiraSeptember 3, 2020September 3, 2020

A poem for our times

I feel tired We all do So I don’t call you out For the way you dismissed me Or the way I hurt Because we all hurt We’re all tired So let it be Let it rest Give some grace And do your best I feel tired We all do We all do We all […]

poetry by SamiraJune 16, 2020

Dreaming

Dear Education, I was a kid And you told me to dream As long as it fit Your mold Your idea Your restraints I was a teen And you told me I could be anything As long as it fit Your framework Your ideals Your restraints I was a young adult And you told me […]

poetry by SamiraJune 5, 2020June 5, 2020

I let you…

I let you lead me to think it was me That I was crazy Gaslit Aflame

poetry by SamiraOctober 21, 2019

Sameness on lock

We think our traumas Are the things That leave marks Big and violent We think our worlds Were fine The way they were Small and exclusive We think rebuilding Means fixing what was Going back to the what we know Familiar and comfortable What we don’t stop to think To realize Is our worlds The […]