Tissue Paper Poem Poem by Shikha Gupta

They felt unwanted
unreal
unbecoming
unmine

Like someone in haphazard anger
Had just sewn them together
thrown them together
Hoping that no one would notice
no one would look
at them
They're so shy
so modest
so nervous
so bitten
No one would even know
They were there

And so they felt fat
and ugly

But loved
and happy

As they scattered secrets
In your hands
And watched them
felt them
held them
Melt

It was so warm
They had to melt
And linger

For you to take home
to bed
to breakfast
the day after
to paper

And you just washed them
wiped them
lost them
Without listening
To what they had
To say.