
KMS team
DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT
This poem is wonderfully written by Palak Sharma of The Khaitan school. It is about women misbehave and how they are treated.

Look at me
don't look at me
when I was a little girl
I let myself dream
to be a one admired
viciously corrupted
my dreams
and dreams
do come true
whether it be through
those vagrant boys
who praise my legs
like a Michelangelo art
like they are devilishly
hungry for skin
and I am
their first meal of the day
or the critics of voluptuousness
the scourge classmates
offering endless
bitter honey words
on my waist size or
my 'conspicuous' curves
so yes I am no stranger
to admiration
but I am a total stranger
to admiration
so yes to the little girl in me
dreams do come true//
look at me
don't look at me
and since I can reconcile my memories
I've been told
your body is a temple
but what if
what if
some of the visitors
aren't religious?
how will
my temple
condone to atheists
who existence
serves only to corrupt
sanctity of my mind?
tell me
how should a temple
survive amidst
no followers?//
look at me
don't at me
I am no stranger
to gazes
penetrating my dignity
but as my body
is subjected to unauthorized critics
the judges of my scars
my head rings
with all those
fairy tale voices
lying sweetly that
all girls
are goddesses
and if that is true
i truly hope
science is truth
and religion is a lie
to save them
of this hypocrisy
all these honey lies
so that they too
don't hide
under loose jeans
long attire
to relieve themselves
of suffocating under
Minds who cannot
Come close to fathom
Anything underneath
Her skin or what she likes.
So don't you say that
We are goddesses
Do not sugarcoat
Miseries and cries
That silently
screams for help
Do not objectify.
So listen
And you shall here
The silence
Whispering
Girls are not goddesses
Just human
Treat them
like one. //
So look at me
Don't you look at me
And I hope
Among these gazes
One day
We'll unite. //