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You twist the cube,
try for one bright hue to fill your eyes, 
fumbling to build a blue wall 

that shines 
like a clean childhood sky, 

but the fingers fail and the cube bleeds, 
refusing to comply, its fuming patches 
bragging bitter truth,
describing the sickness that grins 
between the seams.
You drop the cube,
close your eyes 
and dream.

©Jane Paterson Basil

Written for Reena‘s Xploration challenge #196. Sorry, Reena, my WP editor has a glitch: hard as I try, I can’t get it to highlight the whole name of your post when creating a pingback.

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You are the bright one

The star that shines

Your parents’ chosen

When everything is done

Others blend, always trying

You’re the one always defying

The dark surround

The quiet mind

You’ll never be

The silent find.

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PROMPT #196

There is no restriction on length or format of the piece. There is no last date either, unless you wish to be featured in the Weekly Wrap.

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No matter how hard I try, I’ll always be the odd one out

The society judges me by its skewed standards and I don’t fit

Conformation is not my aim nor my desire in life

Being like everyone else never held any appeal for me

I like being different, I like my individuality

If I am a square peg in a round hole, I am rather proud of it

They call me a misfit, and aim to hurt or provoke me

They don’t know that I crave this title, am absolutely good with it

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It’s easy to be a feminist when one is financially independent, and in a social environment conducive to living alone?

What happens in the societies where unmarried girls stay with parents, or a dependent wife stays in her marital home AND faces mental abuse. They continue to stay there because the world outside may be crueller than that. The abusers provide a roof on the head, and an iota of deemed social respectability.

How long does it take to start earning and move out of the house?

Is it always advisable for a single girl to get married, only to escape her abusive parents?

Is it easy for a married woman to file for divorce with no support outside, and financial interests entangled with the abusive husband or in-laws?

The abuse that children grow up watching makes them think it’s normal, and the patterns spill over into their personal lives.