<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Saqib Fayaz — Writing</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/</link><description>Poetry and reflective writing by Saqib Fayaz.</description><language>en</language><item><title>It&apos;s All in the Eyes</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/its-all-in-the-eyes/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/its-all-in-the-eyes/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>Reflections on Marriage and the Art of Seeing</description></item><item><title>Corporate Mania</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/corporate-mania/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/corporate-mania/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>A reflection on how corporate culture can turn busyness into identity, unavailability into authority, and importance into performance.</description></item><item><title>Truth</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/poems/truth/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/poems/truth/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><description>A meditation on truth, perspective, memory, and the uncertainty of what we believe we see.</description></item><item><title>What Remains When Chaos Fades</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/what-remains-when-chaos-fades/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/what-remains-when-chaos-fades/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>The truth within us does not need to fight for attention. It waits quietly until pride, anger, and distraction fall away.</description></item><item><title>O life, what a wonderful experience you are.</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/poems/o-life-what-a-wonderful-experience-you-are/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/poems/o-life-what-a-wonderful-experience-you-are/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><description>A poem about childhood, chaos, endurance, and the passing experience of being alive.</description></item><item><title>What Do You Seek?</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/poems/what-do-you-seek/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/poems/what-do-you-seek/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><description>A lost boy’s search through an ocean of sand becomes a question about whether we miss people themselves or the safety they gave us.</description></item><item><title>Befriending Jealousy</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/befriending-jealousy/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/befriending-jealousy/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>Jealousy begins as a quiet shadow. Freedom comes when we stop running from it and learn what it is trying to reveal.</description></item><item><title>Stories Without Endings</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/stories-without-endings/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/stories-without-endings/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>Some stories leave our daily lives without ever truly ending. They remain as quiet memories that continue to shape us.</description></item><item><title>The Firstborn</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-firstborn/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-firstborn/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>The eldest child carries both a rare privilege and a private burden: entering every stage of life before anyone has shown the way.</description></item><item><title>A Liar, Not a Deceiver</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/a-liar-not-a-deceiver/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/a-liar-not-a-deceiver/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>A confrontation over a lie becomes a difficult argument about intention, protection, and the damage truth can still leave behind.</description></item><item><title>Where We Failed</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/where-we-failed/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/where-we-failed/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>Looking back at a relationship, he realizes that love was present, but neither person learned how to fight for the relationship together.</description></item><item><title>Beyond the Flowers</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/beyond-the-flowers/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/beyond-the-flowers/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>To understand someone, we must love more than the version of them that blooms beautifully before us.</description></item><item><title>The Murderer No One Caught</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-murderer-no-one-caught/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-murderer-no-one-caught/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>A walk through the rain becomes a meditation on overthinking and the quiet damage caused by living inside imagined disasters.</description></item><item><title>The Passenger Who Became Captain</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-passenger-who-became-captain/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-passenger-who-became-captain/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>A boy loses the hands that once guided his ship and discovers, through storms and uncertainty, that survival can teach him how to steer.</description></item><item><title>What Faith Asks of Us</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/what-faith-asks-of-us/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/what-faith-asks-of-us/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>A personal reflection on free will, trust in God, and the difference between knowing that God exists and surrendering to His wisdom.</description></item><item><title>The Hidden Economy of Kindness</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-hidden-economy-of-kindness/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/the-hidden-economy-of-kindness/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>At a wedding, an ordinary act of care raises an uncomfortable question: do we value people, or the future value they may offer us?</description></item><item><title>Justice for an Enemy</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/justice-for-an-enemy/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/justice-for-an-enemy/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>When an enemy does something admirable, refusing to acknowledge it reveals a harder injustice within the observer’s own heart.</description></item><item><title>What If the Disappointment Was Justice?</title><link>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/what-if-the-disappointment-was-justice/</link><guid>https://saqibfayaz.com/journal/what-if-the-disappointment-was-justice/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><description>We often call our pain someone else’s doing and their pain God’s justice. Honest self-reflection asks us to examine that double standard.</description></item></channel></rss>