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.
Illustration by Kelly Cole A Cracked Pomegranate by Rosa Parhizkar “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there”
You hurl lies again and again -— with earnest eyes that pierce through mine and lie easily without fear And break— the trust I value