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  • Writer's pictureSindhuja

Portrait of a girl named Hope

The sky seemed suddenly seized by darkness

Her mood had summoned the storm

Nature in solidarity with

the rebel princess, always

Not a royal, per se

But she has a strong will

Or so she asserts herself,

Hope, in her land of purple despair

You’d know if you meet her

even in a New York minute

Shocking but soft pink hair

drumming in your ears for attention

She smells of cocoa butter lotion

and distress, a constant tablet of

sweet bubblegum to avoid vomiting sarcasm

and also bitterness of reality away

her appearance only makes

the modest of them say- Nossa Senhora!

But it isn’t her fault

to look like an outsider

So haven’t you met her yet?

That girl needs you, stick around

Mightn’t stand-out by dying her hair ‘troubled’

but the weather will tell you



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