Shell

Some days I think cruelly that you are a shell of a person

That your soul shed you, unable to bear the constraints

of being inside that fucking head of yours a second longer.

Some days I think you are a shell of a person;

If I found you on a beach

sharp-ridged and beautiful,

I’d be overjoyed.

Amanda Joshua is a Law and English Literature student who has been published in Kate and Starling. She is 22 and single handedly disproving the saying ‘nobody likes you when you’re 23’ by making all her mistakes a year early