Poetry

What It Feels on the Other Side

Shrinikka B Yuvabharathi Public School, Coimbatore · Tamil Nadu, India Published in Aporia · Issue 2 · May 2026

Assumptions,
It makes you blind,
at least enough to not see me.

Truth,
It makes you see me,
but you prefer to be blind.

Truth is meant to be seen,
But you look away anyway.
You choose what feels easy,
Not what feels real.

So I stand right here,
Yearning to be seen
But still unseen.

About the Author Shrinikka B Yuvabharathi Public School, Coimbatore · Tamil Nadu, India

Shrinikka B is a student at Yuvabharathi Public School in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. She writes about the quiet ways people are silenced and the slow courage it takes to speak. Her poems "Beyond the Smile" and "My Part of the Story" also appear in Aporia Issue 2.