Ayush Tiwari

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.

I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.

If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”
― Rudy Francisco

“I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
― Rudy Francisco