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Author: Maham Sohail

Do you want me to be completely honest?

I have always been terrified of love.

Any kind of love.

With the chances of being blissful or miserable,

To wonder if I fly or if I fall.

God because,

It’s so beautiful and so chaotic

The idea that it could save me or kill me

The idea that those I love

Could make me melt into their palms

And of how for them I would turn to stone

And the idea that all this could vanish

In mere seconds

You see,

I am like a machine

Error printed across its screen

Programmed to feel a certain way

To feel the bare minimum

No matter how much love you may show me

There will always be a part that thinks you don’t

The writer is a 17 year old with a penchant for writing, art, music and technology. She is the proud author of her first book ‘Chaotic Kindness’, which is hopefully the first in the line of many.

Published in Daily Times, December 3rd 2017.

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