THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

When life first gave me lemons,

I was only seven.

The bullies crept up to their way slowly into my life,

It was the first time I held up a knife.

Slow and steady I turned twelve, 

My friends slowly replaced my soul and self.

And then came sweet sixteen, 

She'd replaced me as daddy's queen.

Two years later I turned eighteen, 

It was the worst of my teens.

Toxins we're flowing through my veins, 

The world was messing with my brain.

All of a sudden I was Twenty-one, 

I was forcefully married and gone.

I didn't wanna end up alone, 

I just wanted to study and carry on

Just when I turned twenty-four, 

And I couldn't take it anymore, 

The scars had turned me sore.

Mostly lying and weeping on the floor, 

I was expecting it the least-

My knight in shining armor, 

Rescued his beauty from the beast.

Written by,

Rtr. Ishaanee Arwindekar,

Rotaract Club of Thane East.