Women in Me by Ayushi | One Poem Only

One Poem Only · Feb 26, 2026 · 1m

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Women in Me

Ayushi

I think I gather dreams like picking up stones

near an abandoned highway where

the road leads nowhere,

where the wind pants like a tiger breathing

and the woman in me returns to look

for the girl she had lost years ago

perhaps the salt in me will return to the sea

and the light in me will break open

a door, a wound, a memory, that no one can shut

a spring thunder, bolts me awake from a dream

I am dragging my earthy-body towards

the rivers of you, branching out like tendons

slowly the sun…