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Last year, I introduced you to the voices in my head. These are the voices that are integral to my being. These are the voices that keep me going in the toughest of the times, the voices that motivate me, the voices that make me feel alive. Also, these are the voices that scream when I feel hurt, the voices that cry when I feel pained, the voices that sometimes thrash me to the ground and at others elevate me above all agony.
The voices in my head that tried to reach you through some poems last year just got louder than ever before during the pandemic that plundered the entire humanity and shattered the hopes and lives of many, known and unknown to me. And yet, they kept me going. They helped me cope with the immense pressures at work and in personal life.
So, I am here to share again some thoughts, some inspiration, some advice and some truth. Through this book, I have tried to create some positivity in times of annihilation, hope in times of gloom, inspiration for the souls who think they are defeated and the true image of the devastation that we witnessed all of last year during the pandemic whose aftermath, many of us are still suffering.
I am not sure if this will relate to each one of you who reads it but I do hope you can feel the message I want to convey through some simple phrases and words. There is nothing special about this book. You can simply call it a mirror to my soul.
-Lubbu
Dr Lubaina Bahar
Dr Lubaina Bahar is an Intensive Care Specialist Doctor with a background of Anaesthesiology currently practising in London. She has multiple post-graduate degrees and diplomas in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia from India and Europe. She also leads a facebook group of International Medical Graduates in London with currently around 5500 members from across the world. Her interest in poetry dates back to school and she had always been actively engaged in literary activities since. She authored her debut poetry book amidst the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in London in 2020. Her first book 'The Voices in my Head' took the readers on a journey through her life as a physician, a daughter, a sister, a wife, a friend and a confidant to many of her near and dear ones. It was appreciated for the simplicity of expression and the ability to relate to the lives of people around her. This book is a sequele which delves into the life of a frontline doctor and what she experienced during the worst of COVID-19 pandemic. Through her poems, she gives hope, spreads kindness and highlights the emotional turmoil of patients and healthcare workers during the past year. It is a hearfelt read and depicts her feelings in simple and understandable prose and poetry.
