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They Never Knew Her Name

January 28, 2019
By anihanagammanavar BRONZE, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
anihanagammanavar BRONZE, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
"the day you have everything, i hope you remember when you had nothing" --Rupi Kaur


The human heart beats around 115,000 times per day

That's 115,000 times of being broken

115,000 times of shattering

115,000 marks left on her body


But you´ll never see her cry, you´ll never see her smile

Because you never saw her glistening dark eyes

Which could make the stars dance

The shine faded

She faded

As her body drifted away leaving what was a facade

She is a facade


all her scars and her stretch marks

are the beauty glimpses that you never saw

and you still can’t fathom how flawed she is

because in your eyes all the worth of her lies on the surface of her skin.

 

And society never forgets

Society never forgets the rules implicated on her to make her look better

Society never forgets her classification as an untouchable

And society always seems to remember that perfection is divinity

But what if perfection caused the extinction of humanity

What if perfection was just insanity

What if perfection was never there to begin with?


What if you cared enough?

What if you saw that her eyes were for more than seeing

What if you saw that her body was anything but ¨wrong¨

What if you saw her heart bleeding pain

Well you didn’t


You dropped her fragmented pieces

And never fixed them again

You left her to rot where she could never bounce back

But who was she?

You never knew

They never knew her name

But I’ll leave you with these final words

Why didn’t you know my name?



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