Ashwini was recently added to A Cornered Gurl as a contributor and is a faithful supporter and pretty well known Writer on Medium. He specializes in gut-punching, knee-buckling poetry, and can also melt your heart too. He is the Editor and sole host of From The Poet’s Heart, a publication on Medium that is budding beautifully. What he will bring to the publication is a sound and consistent flow of the beauty of words and I am rather happy he is now apart of our community. His poem “Standing Up For Myself” is this week’s feature.
Standing Up For Myself
Not Your Business
Of Course!
Stare at me, as you always do,
judge as you always do,
measure me in all the small capacities
you can but I will not be affected,
and I will not even let you know that I am notโฆ
I donโt expect you to know
my battles, my pain,
my insecurities, my leftover sanity,
my ego melted into self-respect,
my self-respect shattered into hollowness,
No, I seriously donโt,
But if you can, if you really can,
do take those eyes off me,
that keep doubting and make me
even unsure of my most determined
decisions, I request not command
to let me be, and take my beliefs
to turn them into realityโฆ
But somehow I can sense, you wonโt change,
and hence I am forced to tell you in your face,
I am standing up for myself,
and itโs none of your businessโฆ
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Originally published in A Cornered Gurl via Medium.
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