the world didn’t need to scream, it only had to keep correcting me, and i kept folding inward, reshaping myself until even my reflection looked like a stranger i was trying to please.

— Asra Amjad, Even the moon left me - poetry book about love

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Even the moon left me - poetry book about love

by Asra Amjad

Poetry · 137 pages

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“The silence I once used to stay safe became something else entirely, a weapon, a boundary, and a tool.”

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“There are women who suffer in silence, who bury their pain behind locked doors, who swallow their grief to keep the world steady for their children.”

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Asra Amjad

Asra Amjad is a writer of deep silences and even deeper truths. Her work emerges from the intersections of memory, identity, and emotional survival. With Guilt in Gold, she offers her most personal…

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