Vandana Parashar

Truth or Dare

cold rain
after a while
it doesn’t matter

Most of the time, I’m extremely emotional and sensitive. I feel too hard, I fall too hard and I break too easily. But, there are times when I realise that I can be extremely cold, if I decide to. I haven’t yet explored those parts of me or given myself a chance to. But I know there’s a hidden switch in me. Someday, I might stumble upon it in the dark. Turn it on.

breaking the shell I decide to be

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About the Author

Vandana Parashar is an associate editor of haikuKATHA and one of the editors of Poetry Pea and #FemkuMag. Her debut e-chapbook, I Am, was published by Title IX Press (Moth Orchid Press) in 2019, and her second chapbook, Alone, I Am Not, was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in 2022.

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