Submissions by kiran_ashraf (Kiran Ashraf)

You said you loved me

As you chop ribbons off my fragile flesh with your shiny silver claws

Shards of glass held up profound into my brain

Everlastingly terrifying me

Gradually draining me dry

“That never really happened sweetheart, you are just making it up!”

“Oh, you were a child back then…. don’t sew scattered memories together”

“Shhhh…he is your uncle, we can’t out him like that”

Noises, voices, opinions, suggestions…all in vain

I learned to gulp in my silence

Hear me...