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If you are thin they call you anorexic. If you are not the thinnest they call you fat. If you take some make up they call you unnatural. If you take no make up they call you ugly.
My values and plans themselves do not scare me. No, what scares me is that they are exactly what is expected out of me.
Temperamental; there's a word. Children should be seen and not heard. The early bird catches the worm. If you call yourself a man, then you'll never squirm, weep or cry.
Fixated on the fixings of a fake and fragile life. No longing love or lust exists in your role of loyal wife. In it for security, sex served so soullessly.
Deep within my most hidden desires lyes one which has kept itself mute and unnoticeable for many years.
You're born and then it starts: What cot. What clothes. What school. What lunch. Better boyfriend, Better jeans, Bigger hair, I'm more than you, less than them.
“there is no shame in crying in an empty room, the walls will keep in what you cannot” I am empty as this room now.