Not Her – Delhi Poetry Slam

Not Her

By Aadhya Kedia

I feel the need to transform,
Why? You ask, shattered scars leave prints.
Embodied to be forgone,
Erase the memory.

Build it new, unused, thy pure,
Change the reality into a dream.
Something you can never call yours, 
Erase the ecstasy. 

To blame, to tame, to make vain, 
Don’t you worry, I love you.
Eve, coin flip, please,
Erase me, as easily as your line.

Remind yourself, for I am not her,
She shed her skin, the memory scarred. 
Filthy, worn, exploited, still - purer, 
Erase me, as though I am a fantasy.


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