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Beautiful | Shubhangi Bajpayee

March 4, 2022

Not a collective
It is personal
Beautiful is
Not a qualification
Not a rank
Beautiful is a feeling
Not a judgment
A poem
And not a test
Is a practice,
Beautiful
is love.

But tell me

How to be?

Who to be?
More importantly,

Who NOT to be?

Every breath I take seems wrong
Every pleasure I feel guilty 

Every sadness seems like a crime 
And every moment that is not picture worthy is a waste [of time]
Tell me 
There’s more to this life 
Than these 4 corners
A heart 
And a dialogue cloud

Tell me 
I can fly free from that paper airplane [icon]

And be saved in someone’s memory
Without the bookmark

Tell me
Beautiful is more than just someone’s gaze and approval

I guess
I don’t know why I want you to think that I look beautiful
I guess 
I want you to tell me
that I look beautiful

So
I try to look beautiful
The way you think is beautiful
So that
You can tell me that I look beautiful
Cause I sure don’t feel like it myself

So I wait for your approval 

As you wait for mine.

Authors : Shubhangi Bajpayee 


Shubhangi is a second-year student of Bachelor’s in English Literature and has fallen in love with storytelling since she learned to talk, just another kid who is still making up stories as an adult, when it’s no longer cute. Writing deeply personal yet observational narratives, she is moved by the world and how the human soul reacts to this movement.

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