She was repulsive to their eyes
With unsightly marks
She contracted from a neighbor
Her four year old intelligence
Cannot comprehend
Why they shun her away
Keep shutting their doors on her face
Telling her that she was disgusting,
More hideous than a toad.
She always cried
Confused and stung
By the spew of words
And she clung dearly
To the hem of her mother’s dress
Trailing behind her mother
Every possible second that she can.
As she grew up
She never outgrew
Her little girl stigma…
She would hide
She would hunch away from people
She seldom talked to people
And avoided crowds if she can.
Hideous?
A word a man should never use
To describe another man’s features
But an absolute description
Of a man who spews
Putrid hate from his mouth.
