To the ones who inspired these pages, both gently and painfully: your presence and your absences shaped this work. — Asra Amjad, Even the moon left me - poetry book about love Copy Share WhatsApp
by Asra Amjad
Poetry · 137 pages
“In the quiet ache behind my eyes when I looked at myself too closely.”
“because the love that stayed, through the silence and ache, through the nights no one else saw, was mine.”
“by the time i realized i was hurting, i had already learned how to live with pain.”
“A way to tell the truth, not because I owed it to anyone, but because I finally owed it to myself.”
“There are women who suffer in silence, who bury their pain behind locked doors, who swallow their grief to keep the world steady for their children.”
“Because when you are surrounded by the right people, your strength finds a new direction.”
“Sometimes the answer is not in changed circumstances, but in a changed heart.”
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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