There's Something About Mira

by Sonali Dev

The flashes of joy I’ve felt today, the ancient discomfort I’ve carried all my life, all of it pulses inside me in time with the slightly off kilter beating of my heart.

The kind of discontent I’ve never allowed myself to feel scrapes underneath my skin.

But can we ever leave our prisons behind? They built them into us. It’s all they’ve ever done from the day we were born, turn us into our own prison cells.

Sometimes I think that’s the problem. That I never learned to live as separate from you and I don’t know how to change that.

No one can convince me that wearing a ring on a chain around your neck isn’t the most romantic thing. There’s no greater symbol of longing and loss, of love cherished beyond its earthly existence.

Please keep singing. When you sing, the world makes sense.

Money is easy to repay. A life and a million acts of nurturing and kindness aren’t.

We won’t take jewels and land to our grave, but our souls will carry the choices we made and how we lived to the next life.

are we born to turn away meaning when it finds us?

Everything that has ever happened to me in my life has been bearable because you showed me how to get through it. Because you knew who I was even when I had no idea. Now who will tell me what to do? How will I know who I am?

For a moment, I am every painful experience I’ve ever had. I’m all my yearning for joy.

If you’re in love, if your hearts recognize each other as a piece of themselves, you’re lovers. When will people stop using lust to devalue love?”

The act of growing a spine hurts, but it doesn’t seem reversible.

It is hard to do the thing you want when you’ve been taught that doing what others want means loving them.

There’s something about me when I’m with him. And I think it’s that I really like who I am.

I open my eyes and wait for him to open his. When he does, I see the entirety of our life together flash in them.