New Beginnings, Old Endings

By Asha Rajan

Shattered dreams at our feet, like confetti on our wedding day. We sign divorce papers on each other’s backs. The pen scratches your signature into my skin and I remember our younger selves, lying naked and happy, the feel of your finger tracing your initials the same way. Memories do that don’t they? They edit out the arguments and silences and forced confessions. Carefully curated scenes of idyllic bliss are all that remain – two dimensional caricatures of a flattened reality like sepia photographs of travel adventures.

You post a selfie titled “New beginnings.” I unfollow you. Same old endings.

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Asha Rajan is a South Indian-Australian writer who writes “to make space in her head for new worlds and new words.”