Untitled Piece!

Maryam Jaffar
2 min readSep 25, 2023

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I want to draw a circle

I want to draw a circle

And write my sorrows inside

So they can never leave the room

And stay within the walls of my heart

Because what if you are damaged too

What if I make you cry

I don’t want anyone else to see

Those blisters and the scars that bleed;

— and I just want to die

“Just hold your pen and pen down stuff”

But what If I unleash a World?

A world too scary for you all

A place so deadly and its gore

These scars won’t ever leave my soul

They etched too deep, they make me drown

I know this solace makes me smile

I’d kill for lonely, happy times

But, sometimes as I sit and watch

Not people holding hands and all

But silenced walks and those shared smiles

It makes me wonder if there may be

Just someone waiting along the way

To fight with me and not for me

I might be damsel in distress

But seeking knight is not my thing

These battles in my life I have

Been fighting, losing, acing alone

So, you will never be asked to

If I need guards I might have had-

But, oh they don’t know what it means

To be a partner without being any commodity!

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