Stop All the Clocks contains twenty-one poems, each responding to a film that has brought me comfort throughout my life. The title of each poem is borrowed from the title of its corresponding film. In these poems, I draw parallels between the themes of each film and my own life story. This collection serves as a reclamation of my humanity against the apostasy and anti- gay laws in Islam and represents a point of healing after experiencing narcissistic abuse under my mother’s theocratic rule. Through this journey, I have escaped the bondage of man’s enslavement and his continued insistence on living in a state of self-imposed immaturity, even after reaching maturity.