These times bring our differences to the surface and it’s easy to slide into the comfort of punching each other with ill chosen words.
Just ensure that when you climb back to the surface and those feelings subside, I hold you in the deepest waters of love.
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.
Across the street there is hustle and bustle, A constant buzz of thrill— beats pumping, bodies moving Continuous action. Across from that is a still
Illustration by Emma Strauss A Private Affair by Sonia Chintha She swallows the words, they say, one large pill at a time; they explode inside
Wispy strands of air whip my body, a gentle massage only a winter’s morn can provide; I tilt my chin up into the brilliant blue