November 9, 2022PoetryCentral ParkYou came along when skies were dark, just like a song, you left your mark. Upon my heart, I felt a spark. Our energy was off the charts,…
January 26, 2022RelationshipsGlass — A Poem on Fragility and TrustSpontaneous combust, coughed up, in a cloud of dust, erased the air, to tread on trust, swept under rugs to stop the stuck,…
January 26, 2022PoetryKerosene — A Poem About VolatilityHad my wings coated in soaking hot oil, pouring into the ocean of our toxic, intoxicating love. …
January 26, 2022Mental HealthSeize—A Poem About UrgencyWhen I was a gasoline-soaked rag, that you threatened to ignite, whenever you erupt, that was when I prayed I'd learn to fly, so I could…
June 18, 2021PoetryBP—A Poem About Boiling Points.I need to be vaccinated, immunized from those green eyes; pools of jade, that pull me under, they reel me in, then let me sink. …
June 17, 2021Love & DesireMystique-A Poem About ConcealmentI flicker like fluorescent lights when you feel more right than rainy november nights A few unforgettable sighs …
June 17, 2021Love & DesireUnsmoked Meat.How many times can I fall for a different version of the same mistake? I trip & I tumble,…
February 6, 2021Identity & SelfPanoramic.Window shopping often combined patience, and flipping price tags to find out what cost too much, …
February 6, 2021Society & JusticeGreat Reset — A Poem on Collapse and RenewalBig fucking deal, about your sacrificing sheepiness of rescue ranger superhero. Career victim, like COVID,…
February 6, 2021PoetryCycles — A Poem on Repetition & RelapseSet ablaze by an array of greys, that grazed my grace like the gaze of glazed, but gloomy, Sundays. Every memory had a melody,…
February 6, 2021PoetryLove Letter to Little Me.Dear little Kashif, I want you to know that you are loved, that you are worthy, and that you are worthy of love. Regardless of how…
November 11, 2020PoetryMother Christmas.For all the times your limbs howled from pain, but all you did was smile through the stress. Those nights when you would lie awake as…
November 11, 2020PoetryMufasa.Assertiveness is no anomaly to me, it remarkably reigns over my own internal beasts. Still it somehow seems intent on sabotaging my…
October 6, 2019PoetrySeventeen.When I was seventeen, I lost my mind for the first time, and the world became a frightening place. I lost my understanding of reality,…
October 6, 2019PoetryPozitivity.Growing up gay in a big city, there was no end to stories about acquaintances who had been diagnosed with HIV. It was said they were…
August 30, 2019LGBTQ+Design for Trauma.When my moods change without prediction, I withdraw into my shell. Like an ostrich obstructing its arrest, I plant my head safely into the…
August 30, 2019PoetryDivine Happiness.As an ever-repeated whisper, you are more myth than monolith, mysterious as midnight Mojave-mist, though rumours are the only remaining…
August 30, 2019PoetryAgra.I love you, world wonder— like Shah's love for Noor Jehan erected a Taj Mahal in Agra. Like Mumbai city streets love …
August 30, 2019PoetrySilence Is Golden — A Poem About Solitude and GrowthIt is the appeal of stolen, serene moments during unhuman, late-night hours; in this solitude I rediscover fragments of me, that I'd…
March 26, 2019PoetryHelp Me.“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people…
January 19, 2019Poetrywrigley fieldhe bought my innocent time with promises of candy and wine but when i opened my eyes, i learned that those were just lies…
December 28, 2018PoetryCameo.Your love was a cameo; a supporting character to my storyline. Transient, in every role just like an inexpensive wine.…
December 5, 2018PoetrySpice RackWhen repressed emotions reach the surface, they crash through my floodgates, like raging bulls in thin, red curtains. They seep into my…