I wish I had spent
More time with my loved ones
Who reared me and cared for me
Every single day.
I wish I had spent
More time with myself
Who yearned and cried for me
Yet was kept at bay.
I won the prizes
I earned some name
Of what good is this all to me
When death it can’t delay?
Kamran Akhtar Siddiqui is a lecturer in English at Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan. His creative work has been published on Spillwords.com and Humsari (a Sindhi literary) magazine.