Silk Tether by Minal Khan

Author:Minal Khan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yucca Publishing
Published: 2016-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

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When Alia was ten years old she used to write songs. She would never admit this to me, and to this day she doesn’t like talking about it. Indeed, she had not revealed anything about her song writing to me until I had pounced on an old journal in her bottom-most drawer, thinking that it was a diary. She called, “I’ll kill you if you read it!” Finally, when I escaped to her garden, to a spot where I knew she wouldn’t find me, and sat in the dewy, soft grass, out of breath, I was able to open the mysterious diary and peer into her soul.

To my dismay, there were no heartfelt entries bursting, “Dear Diary, I hate myself and everyone around me.” Instead I found, in indistinct scrawls, written songs. I had thought they were poems at first; with the perfect rhyme scheme and ordered rhythm. But then at random instances throughout the page were written “Chorus”. There was a song called, “Dripping Water,” and a shorter song called “Handicapped Girl.” I read the song, curious to see how far my friend’s imagination had taken her. The chorus read:

Oh, Handicapped Girl, please don’t cry,

You’re alone in this world, by and by.

You’re life’s a blur, full of misery,

I wish you were near, happy and free.

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