Akram was drawn to poetry since his teens. In his middle age, Akram wrote his first poem. He wrote several more and soon realized that some were focusing on internal emotional issues, particular to Akram. That gave him a jolt. 

He retracted by destroying most of those poems. He also stopped reading poets whose only concern was their internal rumblings. He concentrated on poets with universal, humanistic or philosophic concerns. Luckily, there are many of these. Since then, his poems, even though some are in the first person singular, attempted to move out of the personal and the autobiographical and into visions of wonder seen by the speaker.