ache
Manasi Ganti
“doctor, tell me, how do you put a life back together?”
i
sink
mouth
open / heart
frozen / lungs
screaming into
the deep
isn’t it funny that out there is a whole world that doesn’t
understand the way my lungs iced over / a whole
world that won’t remember my name / a
world where hearts still beat / where
questions get answers
cities and cities full of motion full of heat full of
people who don’t know what it’s like to die
“haven’t you heard? there is no heaven there is no hell
there is only blood and ice and this aching empty”