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 resist. Each month. Same day. I know it’s coming. I know the fix. I know how to be comfortable. Still, I resist the comfort.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs The stiff Heart questions will I ever be light again? Am I good
For a month you freed me of— but now I am the center of the whirlpool, the very current my mother warned me of as
I roll past the same ramp opposite the entrance that was the first door that opened my life to this new world and grin at