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Quilts~ By Sukanya Roy

5/24/2016

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Sad and beautiful
motley patchworks of broken
 
cloth, unique in form and feel
stitched into a whole
 
new unfortunate existence
to share, because they care to
 
surrender, yourself
to nocturnal vulnerability

whole, wrap their arms
around your slumber
 
golden and you, comfortable
or comfortably numb
 
next morning comes,
for you to rouse
 
in contentment, douse
in careless, fling it aside
 
walk away and begin
your day as it lies a puddle
 
crumpled and disfigured
with your edges and smell
 
embossed into its heart
a relic of convenient
 
past, and easy future
for some of us
 
are quilts too.


Author Bio:
Sukanya Roy is a seventeen-year-old woman who is able to do almost anything fairly well, but does not consider herself an expert in one thing. Poetry serves as emotional and existential catharsis for her, although that is probably not how she would’ve described her first experience of writing. The couplets and tercets first started flowing naturally at age seven, in her native language of Bengali. Growing up, she always found solace in books and art and poetry. For her, they were the most productive ways to make sense of the world around. She continues to seek happiness from small things in life, which does not usually include people, except children.
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