I Am Learning the Shape of My Voice

I do not know when a voice becomes a voice.

Or when silence decides it has stayed long enough.

But I am here now…

somewhere between becoming and remembering.

My name is A. Noor,

and this is not an announcement.

It is a quiet arrival.

I have carried words in places they could not breathe…

in the corners of my thoughts,

in the pauses between conversations,

in the pages I never dared to finish.

So I am letting them go now.

Not because I am ready,

but because I am tired of keeping them still.

Here, I will write what does not always know how to be spoken.

Thoughts that arrive like rain without warning.

Emotions that do not ask for permission.

Memories that refuse to leave quietly.

If you find yourself here,

do not rush.

Sit with me in the unfinishedness of it all.

I am not writing from arrival.

I am writing from the journey.

And perhaps that is enough.

_A. Noor