Author: Syed Tahir Ahmad Rufai
Pages: 80
Year of Publication: 2020
Price: Rs 150
ISBN: 978-81-944057-8-8 (9788194405788)
 
About the Author
Syed Tahir Ahmad Rufai, 21, is a Sufi poet from the valley of Kashmir. Tahir has been a writer since the age of 10 when he started in Urdu but with time added English poetry to his list. He belongs to the family and Sufi order of Rufai, due to which his poetry revolves around Sufism.
Tahir completed his high school graduation in 2016 and pursued his Bachelor’s in Psychology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, which he completed in 2019. He has previously published a novella named The Flying Sparrows in 2017.
 
Teaser
61
Your skin is too fragile
I’m afraid you’ll break
You have been fostered
Like sunshine raises roses
Step back and come along
Inside a little chest of poems
Cover your skin with mine
It has already been bruised
I’ve been cut and torn
I was not loved by them
My love resides far away
Inside my very chest
My skin will cover you
From what is to come
You wear it till you grow
Heroic and valiant
I might be away from you
But my skin will shelter
When a graze makes you cry
I’ll cry with you
For the skin is mine
I’ll feel your pain too
You can read more about the book in The Telegraph.
 
Contents
66 poems