Forest of Words

Twinkle twinkle, 

Umair, you are my bright shining star

You light up my days

You light up my nights 

You show the way to where my HOME is 

in your arms 

Nestled in that spot directly on your chest 

Where I find my peace 

Love and serenity 

In every single moment, there is always you

Even when we are not talking or texting 

You consume my heart and thoughts 

I love you 

I love you 

Those words are not nearly big enough to describe what you mean to me

My heart is overflowing with the love that is between you and I 

I ache for you, and those words are not nearly big enough to describe what you mean to me 

I ache to be in your arms 

I ache to feel your hands on me 

I ache to hold your hand 

To whisper in your ear

Tell you how much you mean to me

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Love letters 

Sweet nothings 

Tender confessions of your love 

Utterly and completely 

I am yours

You are mine 

Tum meri ho 

Tu meri ho 

For the rest of time 

Ours is a love that is a surrender into bliss

Our love 

I love it when you whisper

I am yours 

It’s true completely 

I am yours

I miss you, and we talk all the time 

I love you 

I ache to lay in your arms 

Bury my face in your chest 

Breathe you in 

Sweet surrender 

Utter bliss 

I am lost

I am found 

I love you in each and every part of the day

The calm, serene moonlight 

Scatters moondust leading back to you 

Tender kisses 

Tender caresses 

Scattered on your skin 

Love letters written on your skin in stardust

Sunlight softly caressing your face

Golden flecks light up your eyes

I surrender to all that I have ever been 

Completely 

Utterly

Devoted 

Treasured 

Cherished

Loved

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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, reunification is “the act of reuniting or the state of being reunited. It can also refer to bringing people or things together into a unit or coherent whole after a period of separation.” According to the same dictionary, it can also refer to countries or nations torn apart being reunited as reunification. The case of Germany would be one such example of a country’s reunification. Germany was merely the example the dictionary provided there are of course countless other examples of countries reunified.

“To bring together as a coherent whole after a period of separation, to unify.”

As a young girl in America, I was raised as a military brat. I had this profound sense of honor and pride for my country. Each time I heard the Star-Spangled Banner, said the pledge of allegiance, and listened to fireworks on the Fourth of July, I would say that it reunified a sense of pride in our country for myself and many others. There was never an act of separation per se, but I think those beliefs fundamentally strengthened our unity. 

A delightful half of a peanut butter sandwich waiting to be reunited with the half of a jelly sandwich is childhood right of passage reunification

A delicious half of a peanut butter sandwich waiting to be reunited with the decadent half of a fluff sandwich is a fluffernutter reunification

A scrumptious half of a peanut butter sandwich waiting to be reunited with the half of a banana sandwich is peanut butter banana reunification

A toasted grilled cheese sandwich reunited with a warm and cozy cup of creamy tomato soup is a culinary reunification.

A wife or husband patiently waiting for their spouse to return from overseas or remote deployment is reunification. I would certainly not call two people enjoying the luxury of living together while illegally gaining access to the country as necessarily reunification; I would probably call it darn lucky! Darn lucky! But I don’t think we should be handing out kitchen passes to illegal acts; it kind of sets the precedent. One legal misstep opens the floodgates to a million more! And color me stupid or silly but I thought obeying the law was kind of a big deal. You can most likely chalk that up to my military upbringing. There simply are no shades of grey on this, but I’m going to remember this: if I ever get a speeding ticket, I was seeking illegal reunification of something I am not sure what because I’m kind of a rule follower! I don’t need my dad stepping down from heaven to tan my ass for illegal reunification. 

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A glimmer of hope is what Kimberley gave me when my mother passed away suddenly, and my heart was ripped out of my chest. The only people I could think of that I wanted close to me were my children and my husband. My brain couldn’t comprehend the pain that I was experiencing, and now I had no living family members to speak of outside of my husband, Umair, and my children. I was floundering in the world.  I have a brother and sisters but there is nothing that can replace a parent, once that is lost. My husband is a massive support as is the rest of my family, but anyone who has lost a mom, dad or both knows this anquish.

I’m a writer. I have always had that since my first poem about a fish to my mother, which she has in my scrapbook!! Pain and loss shattered and tore at my soul, and thoughts, chaotic thoughts, went through my mind. I knew she had stage IV kidney failure and a long laundry list of health conditions. But how was it physically conceivable to go from weeks (at worst) to months (at best) with the very best outcome. Hours was unfathomable to my brain! I just knew if I got mom home we would turn that corner and I could regain ground as I had always done or tread water for a while longer. The GI bleed the hospital did not see fit to correct or even attempt to correct, the transfusions with heart failure, stage IV kidney failure, afib, tachycardia, tachy-brachy, Adam Stokes and COPD l. Well the GI bleed tipped the deck out of my favor and I stood shattered hours later, was this some kind of horrible dream?

How could somebody randomly say “they would see what special accommodations could be made” only to rip it away from me? A glimmer of hope, that’s what I had.

I think the immigration system is broken. I am not unlike others waiting for spousal cases to be approved! I am not unlike fiancé cases and family cases waiting to be approved. I urge for a more efficient, effective and streamlined service platform. Give the officers reviewing cases the tools and technology to complete their casework swiftly.

More attention and care has to be paid to the people who are waiting in line genuinely rather than make special accommodations for people who cheated the system only to be granted their green card. These people are not waiting in the line with us, they bypassed the line coming into our country and they never lost connection to their family or were separated by miles, oceans and continents.

Pause and think on that for a minute. Reunified means or implies you were separated. Now, Umair and I take as many trips as we could possibly afford, but reunification means I’m sitting in the United States. My husband is waiting in Pakistan, bringing us together to stay together in our HOME in the US is reunification. That’s the reunification of families and there are so many couples and families waiting for to be reunified. My brother has been waiting … waiting for his fiancé visa to be approved. Illegally entering is cheating the system and sliding in under the radar and it’s cutting in line whether that’s observed or not. That’s not reunification. That’s, we’ll enable the cheaters and the liars to get away and then make them special accommodations, so here I am, the writer, and you can follow more of my stories @historymysteriesatthemuseum.com and Aforestofwords. blog. I plan to use my skills as a writer to bring awareness to the public. No, I don’t think I’m better than anybody else. No, I don’t think I need to jump in the line above or before anyone else, but when my mother died, I needed my husband. I still need my husband. I’m saying reunification and families should matter for all individuals! Not just the ones who successfully cheat the system. That’s all for my public service announcement today from one girl to the entire world who is missing her mom and wanting her husband to be by her side!

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I will love you, Umair, until far beyond the reach of time

Ma tum sa bohat pyari krti hooon

Tum meri ho 

Tum meri ho, Umair 

So it begins 

As it has always been 

Umair and I are polar opposites

Umair is hysterical 

I am a dorky dork 

Umair has brilliantly sun-kissed skin

I am paler than pale with moon-colored skin

He has gorgeously brown golden-flecked eyes 

I have oceans of grey-green-blue

I have freckles all over, while he does not

I could go on and on

But in a world full of chaos 

I want to step into our piece of perfection

Which is Umair and I 

He is everything to me 

Umair is my heart 

I love him so much 

Umair Tum meri ho

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 Wish I may

Wish I might

Have the wish I wish each night

How I long to feel your touches

How I long to feel your breath on my skin

How I long you playing with my curls

Wish I may

Wish I might

Have the wish I wish each night 

How I long to sleep next to you each and every night

How I long for every day filled with our love

How I long for the nights filled with our love

Wandering together

Exploring the world 

I want to feel you right now 

I love you, Mr. Umair

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There have been times that you worry

Have worried

More times than I can count

You worry I’m not strong enough

Or that it’s a burden 

What we have endured 

I will endure a lifetime 

waiting for you 

I will endure lifetimes

Because I love my life with you 

I will endure lifetimes 

Because our love is worth it 

You are worth it 

You matter to me

You are my everything 

I love you Umair

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Roses are red 

Violets are seldom blue 

I should be sleeping 

Instead, I’m lying here thinking of you 

Frustration 

A million thoughts on my mind

I have written to Senators

Congressman

The White House too

I have written more letters pleading why I need to be with you

Not that I needed to jump over anyone also waiting in the line 

but merely to be by your side

A wife wishing and longing for her husband each and every night

More now that Mom is dancing with the angels 

I would shout to anyone willing to listen 

It needs to matter 

It matters to me

I have a million and one reasons why you need to be next to me

But I will settle for the one that matters most tonight 

You and me! 

I love you 

Happy Anniversary Umair 

I’m a little bit late in posting tonight 

I wish I could jump over the miles and land in your arms tonight and bury my face in your chest and breathe you in 

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Twinkle, Twinkle, bright shining star

Every day, my wish is to be precisely where you are 

So much love inside of me 

I want to give you the world 

The way you have given your heart and soul to me

Twinkle twinkle

In each and every day 

I wish I could pull the miles apart that separate us

Close enough to touch

Close enough to hold you 

Close enough to feel your breath on me

Close enough to feel you pull me closer

You are the bright

You are the sparkle 

You are the shiny parts

You are everything 

You hold my heart

You are my dreams 

I love you Umair 

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