Turmeric Milk

By aleema garfinkel

Turmeric Milk is a collection of poetry exploring the raw aspects of mental health and struggling with depression, an eating disorder, and trauma.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669817673

aleema garfinkel

Aleema Garfinkel is a queer second generation South Asian American college student, writing to spread awareness and end the stigma around mental health.

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Rev. date: 04/05/2022

to all the w

omen who held me hope

and offered me the gold

to glue my broken parts back together

you showed me that all along

i was art

kintsugi

i don’t feel safe in my own head

when it’s not a sauna of brain fog,

it’s a chaotic battlefield of blues

i am a bystander in an ongoing conflict

between my brain and body—

while my body is just doing its job to keep me

alive, healthy, and nourished,

my brain is trying to keep me

hurting, starving, and barely living

i have trust issues with my own mind

everything i believe

is murky with conflicting beliefs

each role, an additional weight

pulling me further into