To the ones who inspired these pages, both gently and painfully: your presence and your absences shaped this work. — Asra Amjad, Even the moon left me - poetry book about love Copy Share WhatsApp
by Asra Amjad
Poetry · 137 pages
“When the girls learned to laugh in unison, she was still trying to catch the rhythm.”
“When others wore their bodies like they belonged in them, she was still tugging at sleeves, hiding knees, covering skin that felt too loud.”
“sometimes it just sits beside you until you forget how to feel anything at all.”
“There’s a kind of memory that doesn’t live in images or events—it lives in the body.”
“Because when you are surrounded by the right people, your strength finds a new direction.”
“To be known, even briefly, is to be reminded that you exist beyond your pain.”
“In a house where emotions roared and men stayed ghosts, I learned to survive by reading every room like a weather forecast.”
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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