...During my school days, I read a poem;"A man of words and not of deedsis like a garden full of weedsand when the weeds begin to growit's like a garden full of snowand when the snow begins to fallit's like a bird upon the walland when the bird away does flyit's like an eagle in the skyand when the sky begins to roarit's like a lion at the doorand when the door begins to crackit's like a stick across your backand when your back begins to smartit's like a penknife in your heartand when your heart begins to bleedyou're dead, and dead, and dead indeed."-Percy B. Green.. And fell in love with poetry. Never did I think though, that I will end up writing a poem let alone a book, but that's life. You cannot do what you want to do but end up doing what you never believed you would. For me that was writing a poetic verse, a poem, a poetry book. It was not as if I planned writing it, over the years, during different times, phases of life, happy and sad moments, when I needed to express my feelings, I kept on writing stuff off and on my blog and then one day I thought, why not collect everything and publish a book. I have tried to compile a variety of genres here such as love, patriotism, sadness, happiness, humour, real life events, dialogues, emotions, thoughts, religion, and observations. I am in no way saying it will be worth reading, but I hope people reading this will try to absorb themselves in the words the same way I did when i was writing them.~ Raafay Awan