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You paint a picture of
Y ou pain t a pic tur e of
who you think I am,
who y ou think I am,
And are shocked when
A nd ar e shocked when
I r efuse t o let tha t define me ,
I refuse to let that define me,
y being
when the c
olours of m
when the colours of my being
e t
ar
are too vibrant for you to see. .
ou t
t f
an
or y
o see
oo vibr
o no
e on the off
ense
w y
ou ar
So now you are on the offense, ,
S
and trying to pin it all on me, ,
ying t
o pin it all on me
and tr
“Who do you think she is?
“
ho do y
W
ou think she is?
Well, she’s not so.”
W ell , she ’ s not so . ”
A silen t k iller .
A silent killer.
A not-so innocent.
A not -so innoc en t .
A mast er of dec eit .
A master of deceit.
L
Let me tell you, ,
ell y
ou
et me t
er claimed t
I nev
o be
I never claimed to be. .
ou just chose t
o see
Y
You just chose to see
The numbers on the sheets,
T he numbers on the sheets ,
Those stories you heard about me. .
or
T
ou hear
ies y
hose st
d about me
ourse
r
er
ef
o
nd of c
ed t
And of course, you referred to
ou r
, y
A
guide of the societ
y
the hand-guide of the society
the hand-
f ho
w I supposedly am,
Of how I supposedly am,
O
and then made up your mind. .
and then made up y
our mind
I colour out of your boundaries
I c olour out of y our boundar ies
and you paint me black for that.
and y ou pain t me black f or tha t .
But I will not apologise,
But I will not apolog ise ,
ours
or not fitting in tha
for not fitting in that box of yours. .
t bo
f
x of y
I am fr
I am free, ,
ee
to choose who I want to be, ,
t
o choose who I w
o be
t t
an
to be the way I am,
y I am,
o be the w
a
t
t o sha tt er tha t bo x of y ours ,
to shatter that box of yours,
to prove that picture wrong.
t o pr o v e tha t pic tur e wr ong .
ART: VANDITA
AR T : V ANDIT A