Suraja Menon Roychowdhury

3 AM

I dream I’m a child again. Playing hide and seek. And staying hidden. The dream has become a nightmare – the game has ended, and they’ve forgotten about me. I wake up terrified, with the fear of abandonment, the fear of being unimportant, of being unmissed. Moonlight floods the room as I reach for my phone.

with the world
at my fingertips
I 'love'
their posts – these 'friends'
who are complete strangers

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About the Author

Suraja Roychowdhury is originally from India, now living in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is a Chinese Medicine practitioner who loves writing haiku, tanka, haibun, haiga, and other Oriental poetic forms.

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