My work explores my lived experience as a British- Pakistani second-generation immigrant. I do this with writing and performance to navigate the complexities of diaspora on a personal level. I perform the writing in the form of spoken word to convey the immediacy and emotion behind my topic. The use of writing and poetry as a performative art form also stems from the culture of shayari (Urdu poetry). Words are powerful and my work plays with power, the loss and gain of it from a post-colonial stance voicing my narrative as a product of the internal conflict of living in the land that colonised mine. Examining ancestral wounds and their scars left in an act of healing.