I just thought I'd share something I have written back in 2019 when I decided that I was already okay with being different. I hope you're okay with that too because here's an ode for you! ✌️✨

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"Ode to the Center of Distraction"

You with the one with the look that pierces other eyes when you actually see paradise

You who wears piercings to introduce the intimidating beings inside your head, your heart and the one inside your soul waiting for the world to see you as a blessing, as a phoenix rising from the ashes, as your best, as someone who is different from the rest

But you are different from the rest, you’re a head-turner, every jaw drops at the sight of you, and every hand extends at your presence, every glance was contagious but it was not because you were blessed.

It was because you were different.

They have not seen anything like you so they can’t comprehend; they refuse to understand the conundrums that you make when you smile, when you love, when you choose to break barriers this world made out of its own failure.

You, that releases an army of an overwhelming mixture of melancholy and glee, of apology and happy, of love and hatred, of sadness and joy, of distress and calm, of standard and crazy, of passion and apathy, when you dust your knees and laugh as if pain was just a refreshing droplet of rain

And when it rains, your heart begins to beat again and you stretch your arms and dance

Until you realize your heart was slowly turning into a blade for anyone who threatens your royalty and tries to replace it with fragility until all that bleeds from their mouth was the word sorry

As you stood there unapologetic because there is nothing to apologize about not even when every smile upon you turns into a pout because of the staggering wall of standards that makes people flinch.

There’s nothing to apologize for when you sit alone in a quiet cafe, sipping a cup of matcha latte

There’s nothing to be sorry when you’re just trying to find a taxi and being all frisky

Just trying to order a meal in a fastfood, just trying to get clothes that looks good,

Just trying to be friends with a stranger, just trying to dance at a party

Even when you get nothing but adjectives like shameless, dateless, loveless, lonely, relentless

But you are relentless and a riot against those who goes against it.

I don’t blame you for the attention; in fact I am filled with nothing but adoration, for making your scars as a mural for the wall that’s built around your fettered heart.

I adore you for making a monument from every broken bone, every wound, every tear that shed from your eyes and you called it your own.

I adore you for planting knives around your soul that cuts off every man that comes to steal, kill and destroy your joy.

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