Nothing in the City Felt Like a Stranger

Poetry is often born in places where words become insufficient.Throughout life, human beings experience countless emotions—love, separation, loneliness, hope, fear, regret, and the silent awareness of mortality. Yet expressing every emotion is not always easy. Some experiences can only be felt, and poetry attempts to give those silent feelings a voice."e;Nothing in the City Felt Like a Stranger"e; is not merely a story about a city. It is the story of every person who has, at some point, felt an emptiness within themselves while moving through the crowd of life.This collection explores moments when a person turns inward and asks:Are we truly living, or are we simply moving along with the passage of time?Do relationships always remain ours?Can memories keep someone alive even after they are gone?Does hope survive even when everything around us becomes dark?These poems contain a city, but behind that city lies the human being. There are crowds, but also the loneliness hidden among them. There is the thought of death, but also a deep love for life.This book does not present life as a final answer, but as a journey—a journey where every person loses something, learns something, and eventually tries to return to their own inner self.Perhaps the greatest mystery of life is that we all know everything will one day come to an end, yet we continue to love, dream, and hope.And perhaps this is the most beautiful part of being human.— Fazal Abubakkar Esaf