Under the Skin

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The Prompt: New Skin—If you could spend the next year as someone radically different from the current “you” — a member of a different species, someone from a different gender or generation, etc. — who would you choose to be?

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Under the Skin

Like the ugly oyster creates the lovely pearl,
I’ve made starts at being a better sort of girl.
I’ve starved and exercised until I made a brand new me,
hoping that a siren was what I would set free.
But no matter what I look like, whatever I could be,
At the end of all of it, I find I’m only me.

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  4. calensariel's avatarcalensariel

    Which, IMHO, is why it’s foolish to make New Year’s resolutions to change, for we are the same person on January 1 as we were on December 31. Your poem is the inevitable outcome of that New Year’s journey — again and again and again. Better to learn to love who we are? I have felt like this every January for God knows how long… Loved the poem!

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