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
“by the time i realized i was hurting, i had already learned how to live with pain.”
“the world didn’t need to scream, it only had to keep correcting me, and i kept folding inward, reshaping myself until even my reflection looked like a stranger i was trying to please.”
“because the love that stayed, through the silence and ache, through the nights no one else saw, was mine.”
“There’s a kind of memory that doesn’t live in images or events—it lives in the body.”
“The silence I once used to stay safe became something else entirely, a weapon, a boundary, and a tool.”
“There are moments in childhood that don’t pass with time—they settle into the folds of you, like dust into fabric.”
“To be known, even briefly, is to be reminded that you exist beyond your pain.”
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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