A Good Little Girls Zine

Awake and Alive

In the darkness,

I awaken

to visions of you

alive, thriving among all the people, your friends especially

Those I’ve only just now met in your passing.

In the black night, I am restless with memories of those first years of immigrant life, that apartment I barely visited, the car I barely knew,

What I did feels useless tonight, went after my dreams, left you behind, knowing fully the intensity of mindset and emotions and conflict of becoming an immigrant.

The loneliness, I knew it so well and left anyway and tonight in the blackness of the night of your burial, I am left overwhelmed, suffocating in regret.

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Sonia Chintha

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.

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