“Me & Her” by Adrija Chakraborty

Looking at myself in the mirror, my eyes trying to find her. Maybe, they do find her or maybe, they’re just as deluded as my mind is. Because I was never her, I can never be.

I can’t straighten my unruly hair and no matter how much I try to hold my belly in, it is always more eager than I am to flaunt itself.

And believe me, I did try to tailor myself into being that girl but I couldn’t. This

hammering, this squeezing in won’t succour me.

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But a fragment of me was still ashamed of me. And if only had someone whispered, “you don’t need to be her, you never did” would I have been able to look me in the eyes and only my eyes?

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