Suchita Senthil Kumar
My father taught me to touch fire
when I was younger as though
he knew I’d spend my whole life
seeking something that would burn me.
He never taught me to heal
the charred and dead skin but always
reminded me to put the flame off –
the art of killing something that killed you.
Suchita Senthil Kumar is a writer creating chaos from Bangalore, India. Her work has been published in Live Wire India and Brave Voices Magazine, among others. She was a student of UNICEF’s Voices of Youth Mediathon ’21. She makes life decisions asking herself one question: Will Sirius Black be proud?
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