If I Tell You the Truth (When You Ask Me Where I'm Going, 2)

by Jasmin Kaur

if my body is a burial ground for midnight-dark memories and a thousand open-ended regrets i can, at least for a moment, bask in the sunlight of what has bloomed.

healing does not require the listening ears of our abusers

“Aren’t we familiar with toxic fumes masked as beauty?”

it is an act of bravery to live through hell and run from it when we have been made to believe that running is far more dangerous than staying