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Letters to My Younger Self
Letters to My Younger Self I found the box by accident. It was hidden under old clothes, buried in the back corner of my cupboard—the kind of place where forgotten things go to sleep. Dust covered the lid like time itself had sealed it shut.
By Imran Ali Shah2 days ago in Poets
Sitting with My Self-Hate
Some days, the ickiness eats me up. What I see in the mirror: my face or that part of my body I have touched. That ickiness eats me up. I look and see the emotional disgust erupt throughout, like so many times before. Fractured ribbons of hate, self-loathing. An explosion of discomfort insidiously batters through every metre of my digestive tract, through each pore. Through every nerve. I feel cold inside out.
By Chantal Christie2 days ago in Poets
