I always wanted to be a writer,
To be able to string together words to create a perfect symphony so that it can leave the reader crying.
But you see, writing did not come easy to me.
Growing up, the letters mocked me – they appeared to me
upside down, inside out, twisting around,
laughing at me, taunting me.
The simplest sentence appeared to be a maze,
Leading to nowhere.
Words and letters made a fool out of me,
A joke to my peers,
Who laughed at the scrambled set of letters,
I produced in front of them
From which I attempted to find meaning,
To tell my story,
The story of a girl who had difficulty reading and writing,
Who wanted to take over the world
By becoming a writer.
Nikita Chatterjee is a journalist, poet and story writer, who is interested in bringing issues from the margins to the frontlines through a range of mediums.
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