I won\u2019t shy away from a kiss,<\/p>\n
In my head I have already devoured you.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want you to write paeans<\/p>\n
On how my hair dreamily cascades down my waist<\/p>\n
Or how the wind plays with my earrings<\/p>\n
Or how my beauty stopped you in your tracks<\/p>\n
And rendered you unable to function.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want you to \u2018protect\u2019 me<\/p>\n
From the idiots on the road (were you one of them?)<\/p>\n
Or the lechers at the chai wallah.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You might want to start taking notes,<\/p>\n
I am about to expose an unacknowledged reality:<\/p>\n
I happen to have a notion of my own sexuality.<\/p>\n
I too, have hormones mingled in my blood<\/p>\n
Which make desire pop in the middle of the road for a biker;<\/p>\n
In the middle of a class for an intellectual;<\/p>\n
In the middle of a book for someone fictional;<\/p>\n
In the middle of\u2026 anywhere really. I don\u2019t need an occasion for it.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t change the very body you so love to tame.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t deny my Desire<\/p>\n
And yet you do. Always have.<\/p>\n
Since you decided my body is made to make\u2026<\/p>\n
For whom \u2013 you are afraid to ask.<\/p>\n
Because the answer \u2013 is me.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The darkest shade of my lipstick<\/p>\n
Or the lowest cut of my neckline,<\/p>\n
My unruly unthreaded eyebrow<\/p>\n
My bikini-waxed you-know-what<\/p>\n
Are ways I look at myself<\/p>\n
Accept myself<\/p>\n
Construct myself<\/p>\n
In spite of the sexualized conundrum you would have me be.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You see,<\/p>\n
There is a trace of possibility<\/p>\n
That my body exists for me.<\/p>\n
When I ask for it<\/p>\n
You laugh it off,<\/p>\n
Think I am cute<\/p>\n
Slutty<\/p>\n
Joking<\/p>\n
Bold.<\/p>\n
When I don\u2019t however, ask for it<\/p>\n
You blame my dress<\/p>\n
Kajal<\/p>\n
Cigarette<\/p>\n
Time of the night I dared step out.<\/p>\n
I know it\u2019s a lot to take in<\/p>\n
But I have spent my life<\/p>\n
Shaming myself<\/p>\n
For consuming trashy erotica,<\/p>\n
Watching a whole episode for those five uncensored minutes,<\/p>\n
Reaching out for my own navel sometime<\/p>\n
Or caressing my neck,<\/p>\n
For wanting more<\/p>\n
And wanting it in the way I desire.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sex<\/p>\n
Is not a manly pursuit<\/p>\n
And I will no more have you make a coy, simpering<\/p>\n
Sexless, sexualized<\/p>\n
Sculpture out of me.<\/p>\n
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