You’ve always been the extreme to my comfortable,
The outside the lines to my inside the lines,
The rebel to my rule follower,
The bold colors to my nudes,
And though–
I’m safe, comfortable, calm
One look at you and my entire body shivers with potential adventure!
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.
I wear my fingers out into the coldBare, pleading winter air to cool the stabs of heatTo calm the thin acid between my finger bones