She does not want to be here.
It’s dark here.
It’s dark here and light there
and really the light looks so much better.
It looks like something she’s never seen,
never felt.
Like buzz and fluff
and all the bullshit she doesn’t have but thinks maybe she wants.
Chaya Chudasama is a creative writing and gender studies student currently earning her bachelor’s degree at Southern Oregon University. She writes stories about queer women of color and poems about mental health and any other random thing she can come up with.
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