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?
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Ananya Sharma
Ananya Sharma has spent a decade translating the silences of the human condition into verse. Her writing serves as a sanctuary for the haunted and the healing, grounded in the bone-deep understanding that while performing "wellness" may be an art, reclaiming one’s truth is the only way to be truly free. Sober and Other Illusions marks her first step into the light, capturing the quiet, unshakable clarity that begins exactly where the illusion ends.
