Sober. And Other Illusions (en Inglés) - Ananya Sharma

I am my worst written piece 

Guilty of hiding the truth and

Safeguarding it in my crescent lips!

-Ananya Sharma

SOBER is not a book about abstinence.

It is about what remains when the intoxication has a name.

These poems move through love that bruises, bodies that remember too much, and the quiet damage of surviving what was never meant to be survived. Pain becomes ritual. Endurance becomes intoxication. And clarity arrives only after everything familiar collapses.

Sober does not offer recovery.

It offers recognition.

For anyone who mistook restraint for healing.

For anyone who stayed clear-headed while drowning.

For anyone who wonders

Was I ever really sober?