Devika Hazra

I don’t want to be here
But I know not where else to go
There is too much noise here
But silence isn’t where I want to be.
For its in silence
That fear crumbles
— when courage makes its way,
And the lies fade away
— the ones we tell ourselves,
And we make friends
— With the flaws in us we judge.

I’m not ready—- 
To bear those fruits,
Not today, not just yet.”

– d.h.