Author: Shivani Singh

  • The outcast

    The outcast

    I have often been told that,
    I am a temple for bad guys
    and sandpaper hands,
    because I let them writhe their
    filthy fingers on my void body.

    I have often been told that
    I scribble that graphite too much
    and too blunt
    for they make men feel a less of a men,
    and me, a more of a women.

    I have often been told my mouth is
    full of bad poetries and ethnic slurs
    for I step over religion every day
    questioning the existence of that omnipotence.

    I have often been told that I am the epitome of
    wrecked hearts for I love too much and too hard.

    I have often been told that
    I am an egocentric bitch,
    cause I unleashed the secrets of men
    who ran their glib tounges all over me,
    and the sentences I create to tell my history
    could easily form the eulogy for me.

    What I have never been told is that
    I am allowed to mourn the loss of me,
    or how my forged words and unconventional
    beauty has made them fall for art and poetry,
    how the one who have breathed on the nape
    of my neck have rolled their tounges to say
    unintended I love you’s to forever lock a part of
    me,
    how, every person I met took the essence of me
    and now I am nothing but the extraction of every
    person’s soul and bodies.

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