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DEAR ____,

I DONT THINK people love me. they love versions of me i have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. the easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love.

I WAS DYING to hear someone say that i didn't need to try so hard to be perfect, that i was enough and it was okay.

SO I STOPPED being me a long time ago- i can't even remember who that was.

ARE YOU fine?❞

YES, HMM, NO, wait. how do you define what's fine? i smile, i laugh, i talk, and i go out. but then, i also feel that there is something that's eating up my soul from the inside. i feel lost, i feel scared, i panic, i go into sadness, and i suffer in silence. i am all this. so now you tell me.

AM I fine?





- yours truly, AHIKO SENJU









Published 3/6/23

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