Excerpt: the sun and her flowers by rupi kaur

Canadian poet and illustrator Rupi Kaur’s superb work includes explorations of love, loss, trauma, healing and femininity.

if i am the longest relationship

of my life

isn’t it time to

nurture intimacy

and love

with the person

i lie in bed with each night

- acceptance

you cannot

walk in and out of me

like a revolviing door

i have too many miracles

Happening inside me

to be your convenient option

- not your hobby

Rupi Kaur (Baljit Singh; Courtesy Simon & Schuster )

you must see no worth in yourself

if you find me worth less

after you’ve touched me

as if your hands on my body

magnify you

and reduce me to nothing

- worth is not something we transfer

in a dream

I saw my mother

with the love of her life

and no children

it was the happiest i’d ever seen her

- what if