girlhood for me was a performance, and somewhere beneath the applause, i was already breaking. — Asra Amjad, Even the moon left me - poetry book about love Copy Share WhatsApp
by Asra Amjad
Poetry · 137 pages
“because the love that stayed, through the silence and ache, through the nights no one else saw, was mine.”
“sometimes it just sits beside you until you forget how to feel anything at all.”
“When the girls learned to laugh in unison, she was still trying to catch the rhythm.”
“In a house where emotions roared and men stayed ghosts, I learned to survive by reading every room like a weather forecast.”
“To be known, even briefly, is to be reminded that you exist beyond your pain.”
“When something once sacred becomes a source of fear, the rupture is quiet—but it changes everything.”
“Because when you are surrounded by the right people, your strength finds a new direction.”
Asra Amjad is a writer of deep silences and even deeper truths. Her work emerges from the intersections of memory, identity, and emotional survival. With Guilt in Gold, she offers her most personal…
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