Lies
I apologise.
For I am not
All that I claim to be.
I am many people,
To many people.
Not one being
Any more real
Than the other.
I didn’t have to be this way
I was meant to be normal.
That’s what I couldn’t accept.
That’s why I couldn’t just be.
The lies run so deep
They’re real.
And that is why I apologise
To myself.
by arundhati sinha